Owly055
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I've put a lot of time into discovering ways to save time on the front end of brewing, and managed to consistently accomplish a complete brew in 2.5 hours including getting things out and cleaning up. Considering that I've brewed 9 batches (2.5 gallon) so far this year, and expect to brew number 10 this weekend, that savings is significant. I'm "filling the pipeline" so to speak. I increased the number of bottles in my stock, and added a fermenter (for doing lager)...... Which has increased my rate of brewing..... I'll soon drop back to about once a week.
The back end consumes significant time........ bottling, cleaning bottles, cleaning out fermenters for the next brew day, etc.... even organizing brews so I maintain a "first in first out" sequence..... It all takes time. I'm now working on cutting down back end time. The recent purchase of a "clean bottle express" was a good investment in this regard.... I don't know how long the fabric will last, but it does a good job and does it fast. I can see where a bottle washer, a bottle sanitizer, and a bottle drying rack where I could store empties between fills would significantly streamline things. In a perfect world I would have a bottle conditioning chamber with a conveyor.... new stuff goes in on one end and conditioned stuff comes out on the other....... Don't laugh....By "conveyor", I merely mean a piece of canvas on a metal surface, a roller on either end, and a hand crank. The unit would be a temperature controlled box large enough to hold all my bottles, with a door on either end... put them in on one end, take them out on the other.......
The problem is that I have very limited space...... Every living space.... house, apartment, etc should have a brew room just as they have a kitchen a bathroom, living room, and bedroom....... It's time architects took the need to brew into account as a fundamental human requirement.
H.W.
The back end consumes significant time........ bottling, cleaning bottles, cleaning out fermenters for the next brew day, etc.... even organizing brews so I maintain a "first in first out" sequence..... It all takes time. I'm now working on cutting down back end time. The recent purchase of a "clean bottle express" was a good investment in this regard.... I don't know how long the fabric will last, but it does a good job and does it fast. I can see where a bottle washer, a bottle sanitizer, and a bottle drying rack where I could store empties between fills would significantly streamline things. In a perfect world I would have a bottle conditioning chamber with a conveyor.... new stuff goes in on one end and conditioned stuff comes out on the other....... Don't laugh....By "conveyor", I merely mean a piece of canvas on a metal surface, a roller on either end, and a hand crank. The unit would be a temperature controlled box large enough to hold all my bottles, with a door on either end... put them in on one end, take them out on the other.......
The problem is that I have very limited space...... Every living space.... house, apartment, etc should have a brew room just as they have a kitchen a bathroom, living room, and bedroom....... It's time architects took the need to brew into account as a fundamental human requirement.
H.W.