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

[marcb]

Pitching the starter!

 

[Chamuco]

Pitching the starter!

Yeah buddy! Now that's a starter.....ended up being 8 gallons?

 

[marcb]

Yeah buddy! Now that's a starter.....ended up being 8 gallons?

Hi Chad!

Like 8.5G. The original issue is that I could only get my hands on 5 tubes of wlp530 for brew day so I did a multi stage starter to compensate. Then to insure that my gravity wasn't totally diluted by a huge starter I bumped the grain bill up. My efficiency was off which I don't get as I did the same mill, slightly less volume than last time and a saccharification rest at 140 (per the oestmalle recipe) so I had an extended mash and even mashed out with the herms system so there was an extended recirc for conversion.....

The good news is that it is started at about 1.080 and was fermenting about an hour and a half post pitching the starter.

Give me a call tomorrow so we can figure out the cold room AC vent please!

 

[marcb]

Finally! Properly venting cold room AC up into the attic!

 

[marcb]

Taps are installed on the cold room wall! Getting ready to roll!

 

[Carlscan26]

Taps are installed on the cold room wall! Getting ready to roll!

Shiny! Did you get that tray with a drain?

 

[marcb]

Shiny! Did you get that tray with a drain?

Yes sir. Beverage factory is the only one I could find that had the holes 4" on center with 5 taps. Fastev fabbed me an equally shiny piece to match it on the inside of the cold room. One thing I hadn't accounted for though is with the wall mount I cannot run my big tap handles! There isn't enough clearance and if I space them off the wall any further the stainless shanks aren't long enough to couple through the back. It's crazy but it all worked. Going to order some Williams stainless tap handles to round it all out and apply chalkboard paint above for the brews on tap.

 

[Travestian]

This is utterly amazing!

 

[kerklein2]

Yes sir. Beverage factory is the only one I could find that had the holes 4" on center with 5 taps. Fastev fabbed me an equally shiny piece to match it on the inside of the cold room. One thing I hadn't accounted for though is with the wall mount I cannot run my big tap handles! There isn't enough clearance and if I space them off the wall any further the stainless shanks aren't long enough to couple through the back. It's crazy but it all worked. Going to order some Williams stainless tap handles to round it all out and apply chalkboard paint above for the brews on tap.

Pick yourself up some of these for those big tap handles:

http://www.kegworks.com/angle-bonnet-for-draft-beer-faucet-855-p174031

 

[marcb]

Pick yourself up some of these for those big tap handles:

http://www.kegworks.com/angle-bonnet-for-draft-beer-faucet-855-p174031

That rocks, thank you so much!

 

[marcb]

Looking good! Almost stitched up and getting over my dry spell.

 

[unclephilly]

THIS.

This is the most awesome build I have ever seen someone do to their garage!

 

[marcb]

THIS.

This is the most awesome build I have ever seen someone do to their garage!

Thank you, it definitely takes a certain blend of obsession, craziness and the right mix of talented friends to pull this off!

 

[unclephilly]

...and lots of money and many, many beers!

 

[marcb]

...and lots of money and many, many beers!

Lol, true although I've got to say that after lusting after used 2-3BBL systems for almost a year I ended up spending about as third as much to build as I would have spent buying a used system. The talented friends had much to do with that all working out! Cheers!

 

[jjadamsfb]

Don't forget SWMBO. She is obviously awesome and loves beer.

 

[marcb]

Don't forget SWMBO. She is obviously awesome and loves beer.

Never! If it weren't for her attitude, love of beer and ability to ignore my lack of ability to stick within a budget this never would have happened!

 

[marcb]

Washing kegs today!

 

[marcb]

Phew! Kegging first batch is done!

 

[nvrstck]

Lol, true although I've got to say that after lusting after used 2-3BBL systems for almost a year I ended up spending about as third as much to build as I would have spent buying a used system. The talented friends had much to do with that all working out! Cheers!

Since you can get a similar 3bbl setup from psychobrew for about $15K, is it safe to say you have less than $5K in the brew setup (mash & boil equip only)? That's awesome! Inspirational!:rockin:

 

[marcb]

Since you can get a similar 3bbl setup from psychobrew for about $15K, is it safe to say you have less than $5K in the brew setup (mash & boil equip only)? That's awesome! Inspirational!:rockin:

Brain is too tired for math right now! I will tally up a list and prices. I'm guessing that for the brewery with fermenters and control panel total was about 10k. Really stoked on being able to do two different beers in one brew day!

 

[Big_Cat]

Washing kegs today!

What type of keg washer is that?

 

[marcb]

What type of keg washer is that?

A built by me keg washer ; )

 

[marcb]

A built by me keg washer ; )

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/sanke-keg-washer-build-386630/

 

[marcb]

Getting the taps rolling.

 

[Boar Beer]

looking good. thanks for the pictures

 

[Francus]

So, when is the party?

 

[marcb]

Drain line in for the taps! First pour on the first tap from the first keg of the first beer produced by this awesomeness!

 

[BadDeacon]

And that makes it all worth it!! Congrats!

 

[marcb]

And that makes it all worth it!! Congrats!

Thank you sir! We have now got 4 taps flowing, an Amarillo Pale Ale, Blind Pig clone, apple-cranberry-raspberry cider, Belgian Tripel. I wanted all five up and running but I will settle for four!