fast brew day planning

[lslbrew]

2. Wasted steps is wasted time. Having everything right where you need it helps. I have most of my brewing stuff in a rolling cabinet I can easily pull out and position in my brew area.

I had a collision of ideas recently along this same line. I wanted to build a brew stand and was going to make something that folded or stacked together for storage. But I also hate going back and forth dragging all the equipment outside and back in. Then it hit me. Instead of trying to minimize the brew stand, I built a rolling cart that I can use to store all of my brewing equipment in one place, roll it out, set it up as the brew stand, brew, pack it back and roll it back in and store it. It ended up 4' x 2' about 4 1/2' tall with a top and and a shelf on the bottom. The height was to make 3 tiers with my specific equipment and be able to drain into the fermenter after boil. The 4' x 2' is because I could rip a sheet of plywood and make the top shelf, bottom shelf with a storage bin and make a boil kettle stand. The point is that it is much better to have everything in one place, set up and take down all together. It does save time, but more importantly saves my sanity because everything is in one place.