Equipment storage boxes

[SirSpectre]

So how is everyone that doesn't have a dedicated brewing space storing equipment? Like the primary tools:

Thermometers, PH Meters, Brewing salts, Hydrometers, refractometers and the like?

I've just acquired a ton of stuff and its making it difficult to keep track of. I've been looking around for a good tool box, but nothing I've found would be tall enough to make some dividers to store bottles of salts and still have space for various tools.

Whats everyone else been using?

 

[mongoose33]

This is what I use



The toolbox is a Plano 22-inch Big Awesome Box. It's great for longer items like hydrometers, pipettes and so on. It also has enough room under the tray to store the bottles of PH calibrating solution as well as the various minerals and salts used to amend water.

The smaller plastic box on the left is where I keep my PH meter and refractometer.

 

[biochemedic]

I have a long flat rubbermaid storage box that I keep all the do-dads I need for a brew day so I can schlep it up and down from the basement. Some stuff is primarily stored in some of the cabinets in my bar downstairs, and in my downstairs storage area, and I pull stuff in and out of the rubbermaid as needed.

 

[JLeuck64]

I used to keep everything for brewing in one long, wide and low clear tote with a lid. That eventually became full so I have split everything into a couple of totes now days. Brew day stuff is in one tote and bottling stuff is in the other. I like it this way for the totes are large enough for my longest pieces of equipment to fit corner to corner, like spoons, wine thief, racking cane etc... yet each tote doesn't get so filled up that I have to dig through them to find what I am looking for ( ;

 

[C-Rider]

I use two drawers in an old dresser in the spare bed room.

 

[SirSpectre]

This is what I use


The toolbox is a Plano 22-inch Big Awesome Box. It's great for longer items like hydrometers, pipettes and so on. It also has enough room under the tray to store the bottles of PH calibrating solution as well as the various minerals and salts used to amend water.

The smaller plastic box on the left is where I keep my PH meter and refractometer.

Thats a nice box. I should try to find one like that. Ideally I'd make some foam dividers in the bottom to keep the jars of minerals and salts nice and tidy.

 

[TravelingLight]

...Brew day stuff is in one tote and bottling stuff is in the other...

THIS is what I need to do. I've got my stuff in two totes but every time I need something I have to dig through both totes to find the damn bottling wand or airlock.

 

[CU_tony]

I'm lucky enough to have room for these shelves and everything is organized (not exactly right now, but it's a working theory) in boxes. The smaller plastic bins are organized somewhat
Samples
Bungs
Airlocks
Liquid side
Gas side
Brew bags

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[GJOCONNELL]

I have a ton of clear storage bins I use (7-8 in total) I try to keep them sorted by function but it rarely stays that way when you get into cleanup and pack everything mode after a day of brewing....

 

[bobeer]

This is mine... Admittingly it's a total mess but this was right after I moved into our new place. Now, most of that grain is gone but the bin and the little old TV cart is what I keep most of my tid-bits in. I have a small box to the right of the bid that houses all my keg parts, adjuncts, drill bits, etc...

 

[mongoose33]

Thats a nice box. I should try to find one like that. Ideally I'd make some foam dividers in the bottom to keep the jars of minerals and salts nice and tidy.

https://www.google.com/search?q=pla...69i57j69i60.4229j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

 

[thekraken]

I have a ton of clear storage bins I use (7-8 in total) I try to keep them sorted by function but it rarely stays that way when you get into cleanup and pack everything mode after a day of brewing....

I hear that. My boxes are (were) all organized and labeled but after a brewday all that flys out the window. Everything is getting washed, dried, and thrown in the closest damn box I can find.

 

[Maylar]

My stuff is mostly on a cart in my living room (yup, I'm single) but that will change soon since I'm going to be moving. Hopefully to a place with a dedicated brew room with cabinets and shelves. The Rubber Maid storage box is a good idea, I've been wondering how to pack and move siphons, tubing, and other long things.

Fermenting buckets and big carboy are under the kitchen table, but here's my brew junk -

 

[mongoose33]

That toolbox is for my small stuff; here's what I store the larger items in, as well as how I store my grain buckets etc.

That rolling cabinet cost $209 at Sam's Club; it's 18" deep, 36" wide, and 72" tall.

 

[pshankstar]

I have my fermenters, empty kegs, grain buckets and bottles all in the basement neatly stacked in a corner. Then the closet in my office, I keep my tool box that holds all my bottling tools, brew day tools, etc... along with a small rubber maid box to hold the minerals, PH meter and scale. My brew day spoon and siphons stay in my small original brew kettle (7.5 gallon aluminum kettle) in the office closet too. Lastly my keggle and blichmann burner stay out in the garage.

I would like to make room for a shelf in the basement and move everything down there for the time being, but I'm not sure when that will happen. If I can get a shed built then maybe I can move my equipment out to the garage eventually with a closed cabinet like @mongoose33. I would always keep the grains and empty kegs in the basement even if I can move it all into the garage.

 

[Rockn_M]

I just recently purchased a tackle box to store my odds and ends. So when I brew outside I just pick up the box and have everything.

 

[beermanpete]

I keep as much as I can in the fermenter or bottling bucket and some of small stuff in a couple of 12-pack cartons.

 

[MplsUgly]

I keep my stuff in a couple different 1450 pelican cases. One has bottaling stuff, caps, sugar, capper and filler. The other has more brewing and measuring stuff. Pelican cases are awesome if you get them to "borrow" for free, indefinitely for "work".

Or just buy them.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00013J86I/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

 

[thekraken]

I keep as much as I can in the fermenter or bottling bucket and some of small stuff in a couple of 12-pack cartons.

It seems to me you wouldn't want to risk the scratching up of your brew buckets for nasties to hide.