Nano/Micro Brewery question

[Man-O-Leisure]

Hey, just a couple of questions out of interest..

How many gallons of beer approximately per year would a nano or micro brew actually brew?

Also, in that kinda setup, a nano brewery for example, what kinda setup do they have? i mean, would they run a couple of HLT, MT, BK's and a tonne of fermenters or something else?

 

[RM-MN]

A small brewery or large brewery should brew about as much beer as they sell. Not a great answer but that is what it is. How to determing that amount is the fun part.

 

[Mike_kever_kombi]

For "would" see answer above.
Why "would" you brew more than you could sell. Very much market dependent.

For could, I suppose if you were dialed in, had 0 problems, and between 30-40 fermenters, and 7-10 clear tanks, you could theoretically do 3 brews a day, 365 days a year. So 1095 batches a year, at 31 gallons per batch would be 33,945 gallons a year. Not a very realistic expectation, and a butt load of work per year for a 1 bbl system.

 

[Man-O-Leisure]

For "would" see answer above.
Why "would" you brew more than you could sell. Very much market dependent.

For could, I suppose if you were dialed in, had 0 problems, and between 30-40 fermenters, and 7-10 clear tanks, you could theoretically do 3 brews a day, 365 days a year. So 1095 batches a year, at 31 gallons per batch would be 33,945 gallons a year. Not a very realistic expectation, and a butt load of work per year for a 1 bbl system.

Thanks for replying. So basically what i was imagining was correct? That they would have say a 1 bbl brewing system and a bunch of fermenters? Before i started reading about beer and learning from posts on HBT i never realised that these micro breweries had to wait so long from brew day to actually shipping the product out. I mean, do they still leave the beer in fermenters, then bottle and still store those bottled beers to prime/condition/carbonate ? Or are they doing something different to get the beer out quicker?

 

[warriorcoach]

A lot of them do not ferment as long as we do- maybe only 5-7 days. They then transfer it to a brite tank to carbonate and either serve it from there or package it from the brites. Some do bottle condition too though.

They uses carb stones in line or in the tanks to carb it up rather quickly.
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[i4ourgot]

There is a retired guy down the street who does it more of a hobby. He brews more like 1 barrel a month sometimes two.