bdjohns1
Well-Known Member
Hello, all!
I've been bitten by the home brewing bug, and decided that the Mr. Beer system just wasn't quite going to hack it for me anymore.
My day job makes home-brewing a pretty logical hobby - I work for a rather large food company which among other things keeps your kids eating their Easy Mac, sends people around the country in hot-dog shaped vehicles, makes "milk's favorite cookie", a key non-alcoholic component of Jell-O shots, and makes cheese. Yep, that company. I'm a manufacturing manager at one of that company's large cheese plants.
How large?
Well, let's just say that some days we can consume in excess of 2 million pounds of milk. (that's about 15,200 Sankey kegs!)
Modern dairy plants look a lot like modern mega-breweries. Everything is stainless steel. Everything uses tri-clamp fittings. Nearly everything is clean-in-place. We're fanatic about sanitation. So, as I get started on building a serious home brewing system, I'm trying to learn from what works at my plant, even though I don't have the same budget at home. Hopefully I can make a nice beer when it's all said and done, and share clever things I've figured out to make brew days simple and sanitary.
I've been bitten by the home brewing bug, and decided that the Mr. Beer system just wasn't quite going to hack it for me anymore.
My day job makes home-brewing a pretty logical hobby - I work for a rather large food company which among other things keeps your kids eating their Easy Mac, sends people around the country in hot-dog shaped vehicles, makes "milk's favorite cookie", a key non-alcoholic component of Jell-O shots, and makes cheese. Yep, that company. I'm a manufacturing manager at one of that company's large cheese plants.
How large?
Well, let's just say that some days we can consume in excess of 2 million pounds of milk. (that's about 15,200 Sankey kegs!)
Modern dairy plants look a lot like modern mega-breweries. Everything is stainless steel. Everything uses tri-clamp fittings. Nearly everything is clean-in-place. We're fanatic about sanitation. So, as I get started on building a serious home brewing system, I'm trying to learn from what works at my plant, even though I don't have the same budget at home. Hopefully I can make a nice beer when it's all said and done, and share clever things I've figured out to make brew days simple and sanitary.
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