Yet another brewery build, but thought I'd share my build like so many others before me. I'm doing a couple of things a bit out of the ordinary, but essentially everything in the build should be similar to any HERMS build.
First picture is the before. Inside the large cardboard box is my 60" stainless work table where my kettles will sit.
The second photo shows my hot and cold water lines. One of the benefits of building your house is you can plan for the garage brewery. The cabinet has a water distribution manifold, which makes it handy to pull hot water straight off my on demand hot water heater for brewing water. The cold water line I'll use exclusively for chill water.
The third picture is where I left the brewery after working all weekend on it, I decided last minute to run the cold water off to the right side of the manifold vs the left side since that's where my brew kettle will be, so it's more handy to have the cold water valve over there. The hot water I routed down into a hot water filter, which is interesting as it's not a carbon block filter, but more of a 5 micron cotton filter with a stainless core and some kind of descaling beads, which I'm kind of unsure what that's going to do. In any case I'm going to send a sample of the post filtered water to ward labs to get my brewing water tested, hopefully the 'descaling beads' lower the calcium content in my already very hard water. Lastly, I have a copper stub out about 6 ft off the floor which will essentially fill my HLT and Mash tun with filtered hot brewing water. Of course in the middle is a 30A 220V outlet, nothing special there.
Ultimately, the entire back wall except the portion near the hot water heater will be cedar planked, but haven't gotten that far yet (you can see the first cedar plank went on where the water filter is and all the planks stacked up in the picture).
First picture is the before. Inside the large cardboard box is my 60" stainless work table where my kettles will sit.
The second photo shows my hot and cold water lines. One of the benefits of building your house is you can plan for the garage brewery. The cabinet has a water distribution manifold, which makes it handy to pull hot water straight off my on demand hot water heater for brewing water. The cold water line I'll use exclusively for chill water.
The third picture is where I left the brewery after working all weekend on it, I decided last minute to run the cold water off to the right side of the manifold vs the left side since that's where my brew kettle will be, so it's more handy to have the cold water valve over there. The hot water I routed down into a hot water filter, which is interesting as it's not a carbon block filter, but more of a 5 micron cotton filter with a stainless core and some kind of descaling beads, which I'm kind of unsure what that's going to do. In any case I'm going to send a sample of the post filtered water to ward labs to get my brewing water tested, hopefully the 'descaling beads' lower the calcium content in my already very hard water. Lastly, I have a copper stub out about 6 ft off the floor which will essentially fill my HLT and Mash tun with filtered hot brewing water. Of course in the middle is a 30A 220V outlet, nothing special there.
Ultimately, the entire back wall except the portion near the hot water heater will be cedar planked, but haven't gotten that far yet (you can see the first cedar plank went on where the water filter is and all the planks stacked up in the picture).