Home Super Brewery Build: Hybrid Electric/Gas 3BBL Build

[fastev]

Sorry for your loss. I know that stand was (is?) your fifth kid...

 

[fastev]

Meant to work on the wiring, but my Lost Abbey growler got in the way. Kiddies, take note. Beer and electricity don't mix. Cheers!

 

[Carlscan26]

Meant to work on the wiring, but my Lost Abbey growler got in the way. Kiddies, take note. Beer and electricity don't mix. Cheers!

Where did you get that filled in Nor Cal? Lol. Their 7th anniversary party is this weekend - will you be coming down?

 

[marcb]

Sorry for your loss. I know that stand was (is?) your fifth kid...

lol. This one is tough to let go of, but it is going to a good home..... You drank that whole growler of LA and didn't save me any???? WTH!

 

[fastev]

Where did you get that filled in Nor Cal? Lol. Their 7th anniversary party is this weekend - will you be coming down?

I was down at Miramar a couple weeks ago visiting my sister and brother-in-law. We stopped by and tasted a handful of beers. Grabbed a growler of Judgement Day. Good stuff!

lol. This one is tough to let go of, but it is going to a good home..... You drank that whole growler of LA and didn't save me any???? WTH!

Haha. Christy helped, she had a glass. We are going back in a couple weeks, I'll bring you your very own growler! I still have another one full of Stone Anniversary needs to be killed...

 

[SavoryChef]

I was down at Miramar a couple weeks ago visiting my sister and brother-in-law. We stopped by and tasted a handful of beers. Grabbed a growler of Judgement Day. Good stuff! ...

Mmmm I have a 22 just waiting for me to open.

 

[marcb]

After selling my 2/3 BBL system and a fermenter yesterday, I had to stop by the loading dock and pick these beasts up!

 

[Confedpirate]

That looks great, Another question did you put in a floor drain or a floor sink in the floor to catch water when cleaning stuff?

 

[marcb]

That looks great, Another question did you put in a floor drain or a floor sink in the floor to catch water when cleaning stuff?

No, going to run a water Channel on the floor and whatever hits the floor will either get squeegeed out the door or hosed out.

 

[marcb]

Today's effort, powered mostly by beer : )


Drilled the pilot holes for the rebar with a cordless hammer drill as I only had 16" clearance, what a pain. Basically one battery charge per 4" 1/2" diameter hole for the rebar. Cleaned, then poured about 400 lbs of concrete to extend the landing to the cold room.

 

[marcb]

Took a million pics of in wall wiring and plumbing that I won't bore you with but rest assured the build is moving along at a good pace. Insulation, drywall and taping is all done this afternoon. By the end of the week the FRP and flooring should be done. That leaves paint, finish electrical and plumbing to complete the infrastructure early next week, then the fun part of assembling the brewery and figuring out the details.

Cheers!

 

[Big_Cat]

I wouldnt mind looking at those pics...they serve as ideas which is great

 

[marcb]

I wouldnt mind looking at those pics...they serve as ideas which is great

Here you go

 

[marcb]

Another day older and deeper in debt!

 

[marcb]

FRP is up, cold room is almost complete and final skim coat sanding in the morning and the floor work starts at noon tomorrow! Coming along nicely.

 

[Big_Cat]

Here you go

Beautiful

 

[Big_Cat]

How cold will you be able to maintain that room and at what cost per watts?

 

[marcb]

How cold will you be able to maintain that room and at what cost per watts?

The cold room will be able to maintain 35 degrees easily with the 15k btu a/c unit. No idea on cost yet ; ). Planning on venting the heat from that unit into the ceiling and also have an identical A/C unit on the outside wall to keep the entire garage at 65 degrees except on brew days.

 

[Big_Cat]

The cold room will be able to maintain 35 degrees easily with the 15k btu a/c unit. No idea on cost yet ; ). Planning on venting the heat from that unit into the ceiling and also have an identical A/C unit on the outside wall to keep the entire garage at 65 degrees except on brew days.

Marc did you add anything to vent your co2 gases?

 

[marcb]

Marc did you add anything to vent your co2 gases?

What CO2 gasses? I will have a condensate hood basically 8'x2'x2' covering all of the kettles but the BK's are electric and the strike/sparge will be coming from the tankless mounted outside.

 

[trip2hard]

Looking good!

 

[barryfine]

What CO2 gasses? I will have a condensate hood basically 8'x2'x2' covering all of the kettles but the BK's are electric and the strike/sparge will be coming from the tankless mounted outside.

I think he's talking about the co2 from fermentation.

This build is coming together great! Very impressive.

 

[marcb]

I think he's talking about the co2 from fermentation.

This build is coming together great! Very impressive.

Ah, hadn't considered venting fermentation especially at this low volume....

 

[barryfine]

Ah, hadn't considered venting fermentation especially at this low volume....

Yeah, I don't expect it to be an issue either.

 

[Jaybird]

OHHHH MY GAWD Marc!!! Holy COW man!!! Very nice work!!

Dude do you work or are you just independently wealthy? LOL

You have got a lot done in short order my man!!!

So I must have missed it in the threads.. Where did you buy your fermenters? I like em!! and the walk in is very nice man!

Well done sir! Well done!

Cheers
Jay

 

[Big_Cat]

What CO2 gasses? I will have a condensate hood basically 8'x2'x2' covering all of the kettles but the BK's are electric and the strike/sparge will be coming from the tankless mounted outside.

I mean the CO2 gases produced by your fermenters indide the cooling room you built... trapping co2s in such a tight space without a vent can be a headache and dangerous

 

[mattd2]

Ah, hadn't considered venting fermentation especially at this low volume....

Yeah, I don't expect it to be an issue either.

I mean the CO2 gases produced by your fermenters indide the cooling room you built... trapping co2s in such a tight space without a vent can be a headache and dangerous

Very roughly because I can't find the "exact" info I know is on the internet somewhere approximaetly every gram of sugar releases 0.25 litrs of CO2, so for 3 bbl (350 litres) of 12° you would have roughly 120g of sugar per litre or 42 kg of sugar = 10500 litres of CO2 = dangerous if contained in a small space which is not ventilated properly.

 

[marcb]

OHHHH MY GAWD Marc!!! Holy COW man!!! Very nice work!!

Dude do you work or are you just independently wealthy? LOL

You have got a lot done in short order my man!!!

So I must have missed it in the threads.. Where did you buy your fermenters? I like em!! and the walk in is very nice man!

Well done sir! Well done!

Cheers
Jay

Hi Jay!

Thank You! As beer is a powerful motivator I've had lots of help with this project.... Keeping my wife from killing me, now that is a different story entirely ; )

The fermenters are from Glaciertanks in Portland. They are Chinese but unlike others, the welds are quality and the fact that they hold pressure make them ideal unitanks for both ferms and brites at around $1500 per tank (for the 200l size)

 

[marcb]

I mean the CO2 gases produced by your fermenters indide the cooling room you built... trapping co2s in such a tight space without a vent can be a headache and dangerous

Got it, I'm an ale guy so the only time (I know-famous last words) the fermenters will be in there is for crashing and carbonation. That process will actually create a vacuum and require me to pump in additional co2 to the tank so I'm not too worried about it.

 

[marcb]

Very roughly because I can't find the "exact" info I know is on the internet somewhere approximaetly every gram of sugar releases 0.25 litrs of CO2, so for 3 bbl (350 litres) of 12° you would have roughly 120g of sugar per litre or 42 kg of sugar = 10500 litres of CO2 = dangerous if contained in a small space which is not ventilated properly.

Holy crap, that's some fancy math! Sounds like I should be making beer just to produce CO2.... Forget about all this brewery nonsense, I'm running a CO2 factory!

Well this is certainly food for thought, I'll have to think about this one a bit if it becomes an issue. I will have an 8" vent in the main room for the condensate hood, I could ferment directly under that as everything in the brewery is on wheels and movable.