Max Cap

[Orfy]

If you had to go all ot an brew as much as possible what would be you maximum capacity.

I can brew 6 gallons
Primary 18 gallons
Secondary 18 gallons
Keg 30 Gallons. (plus maybe 10 gallons in the bottles I have)

So the largest quantity I could possible have on the go is 82 gallons I'd have to drink as fast as I brew though.

It's normally more like
2 doing, 2 aging and 2 drinking.
36 gallons <>

 

[Alamo_Beer]

My 2 bottlenecks are my fridge and bottles.

I can have 2 buckets or 2 carboys in my fridge so 10gal.

I've got a 60qt pot so I can brew 10gal but I haven't yet.

I'm not sure how many bottles I have but I know I need more!

 

[Beerthoven]

20 galllons fermenting at any one time (only 10 in the freezer, though).

35 gallons of bottle capacity.

Total of 55 gallons, or 11 batches.

That's more than enough.

 

[Adolphus79]

that's 27 gallons + 1 empty carboy + a few more 1 gallon jugs + bottles...

I'd say 40-45... I need to start kegging...

 

[Drunkensatyr]

36 gal fermenting
30 gal kegged
NO clue how many bottles I could hold.....been a while since I looked at the stash.

 

[Donasay]

As long as everyone is whipping it out and measuring, I figured I should chime in. My operation is fairly large, but somewhat inneficent, mainly due to my lack of time and mismanagement. But here we go.

I have:
4 X 6.5 gallon glass primary fermenters (for 5 gallon batches) - 20 gallons primary
6 X 5 gallon glass secondary fermenters - 30 gallons secondary fermenters
4 X 5 gallon kegs for lagering or as secondary fermenter - 20 gallons
4 X 5 gallon kegs for carbonating and serving - 20 gallons
I also have approximately 100 X 12 oz cap bottles 150 X 16 oz "grolsch" bottles and 50 or so swing tops of various sizes up to 1.5 litres. - Probably about 30 gallons

My chest freezer will only fit 7 kegs at a time, it would fit 8 if it was not for the CO2 tank. It also doubles as my kegerator, I have a two tap tower, with a seperate guages on the tank so I can carbonate some beers and serve others at various PSI.

My bottleneck occurs during my brew day, I can do 2 10 gallon batches in a day, but not much more than that, I got three out once but they were all extract. I spend way to much time cleaning and sanitizing, also I have to bring everything up and down the stairs to my basement which is a huge pain. I am having trouble figuring out a schedule, and usually only brew once or twice a month, I could go bigger and get about 120 gallons of beer in my place at a time during various stages of fermentation, but aside from the random bottles of stuff I am saving I have never had more than 9 or 10 - 5 gallon batches at one time.

 

[EdWort]

I'm waiting for Biermuncher to chime in here. I can brew 10 gallons at a time, ferment 10 gallons, then keg, store, chill & carb 18 five gallon cornies and 2 three gallon cornies.

That's 96 gallons on tap plus 10 fermenting.

Time to get ready for next summer.

 

[Buford]

I'm not counting my bottles because I'm never bottling again if I can help it (discounting the occasional fills with a Beer Gun for comps).

4 kegs = 20 gallons
2 carboys = 10 gallons
2 buckets = 10 gallons

Theoretically if I timed everything right I could have a maximum of 40 gallons at a time, but the most I've ever pushed capacity was 25 gallons at once.

 

[jdoiv]

Let's see.
I have a:
15 gallon Conical (figure 12 gallons usable)
2 Bottling buckets (12 gallons)
3 6.5 gallon carboys (11 gallons)
2 5 gallon carboys (10 gallons)
17 kegs (85 gallons)
12 cases of 16oz Bottles (20 gallons)
6 cases of 12oz Bottles (15 gallons)

So if I had everything full or utilized, I would have 165 gallons.

Of course I never have that much on hand and I rarely use the carboys and bottles anymore. So I usually have around 40 or 50 gallons in kegs or fermenters at any given time.

 

[WOP31]

4- 6gal
2- 5gal
1- 6.5gal
8- corneys

80.5 gal - brewery capacity

Plus all the bottles, don't know how many that is, so we'll go with 80.5G


Cheers

 

[Cheesefood]

Three 6.5 gallon buckets
One 6 gallon glass carboy
Two 7.9 gallon wine buckets
Six corneys
And if I needed to, I could use my MLT as a primary / secondary for an additional 8 gallons.

 

[Funkenjaeger]

3 better bottles - 15 gal (19.5 if you consider full capacity)
2 fermenting buckets - 10 gal (13 if you consider full capacity)
5 kegs - 25 gal
enough bottles for about 3 batches - 15 gal
1 one-gallon jug for mini experimental batches
plus two bottling buckets, which could be used as fermenters in a pinch - 10 gal (13 at full capacity)
and if I wanted to throw caution to the wind and use blue water carboys as fermenters, then another 10 gal as well.

So I'd say realistically 66 gal, a little over 70 if I filled the fermenters way up, and up to 89 gal if I went completely nuts.

 

[bigben]

I still haven't gotten into a groove, so I usually only have 5 gallons at any given time.

But I have capacity for:

5 Primary
5 Secondary
5 in Keg
5 in Bottles

So, 20 total.

Hopefully bumping up to 10 gallon batches soon.

 

[Yuri_Rage]

20 gallons in the conical
12 gallons in buckets
6 gallons in a Better Bottle
45 gallons kegged
~10 gallons bottled

Roughly 93 gallons total if I went nuts.

Realistically, I usually have about 30 gallons on hand at any given time.

 

[Donasay]

I think I am going to plan it out and do three Nuts weekends in a row, just to max out my basement, you know for fun, but I need some advice on scheduling.

I can brew 3 - 10 gallon batches in one day if I use extract, that fills all my big carboys and leaves me using 5 gallon ones with blowoff tubes. So if I brew 30 gallons a week for 3 weeks in a row I can get to my secondary storage / keg capacity. I need to come up with recipes and stagger them in such a way that I won't have to drink everything all at once. Possible some 5 to six week ales the first weekend. some 6 to 8 week lagers the second weekend, and some 3 month big beers the last weekend. What do you think I should brew to max out this setup?

 

[Jester369]

3 - 6.5 gal = 19.5
2 - 5 gal = 10
14 - corny = 70
1 3g corny = 3
12 growlers = 6

So, 108.5.

Yoikes - I gotta get brewing!

 

[Pabst Blue Robot]

I can brew 20 gallons, ferment 50, secondary 20, and keg 85. That's theoretically 175 gallons at once if you don't have to put the beer you're brewing into a fermentor.