Tiny House Brewing

[PasbitinusBluinusRibbinus]

Hey guys,

So plans are in the work for a tiny house build next year. For those not familiar with tiny homes, they are ~200sq ft full "homes," usually built on trailers. My reasoning for going this route is being absolutely exhausted with grind of life... at 22.

It will be hard to move away from a 5 tap keezer, but I've got plans to incorporate a brewing and kegging setup in this build. Here's what I'm thinking.

Two tap keezer, built into the wall. Two 2.5 gallon kegs and a 5lb c02 tank, all mounted vertically to save on space. The taps will come out of the wall, with a fold out drip tray.

For brewing: a 3.5-4 gallon pot, BIAB with a small hook suspended from the ceiling. One 3.5 gallon bucket for fermenting. Temp control will be difficult, as I don't want to build anything for controlling fermentation temps to save on space. I can probably live with my climate control being the temperature control, as it's cheap to heat and cool such a small space.

Any thoughts? Any way to make this more compact and save on space?

 

[TipsySaint]

I hope you don't like lagers.....what about chilling? IC's are a bit bulky....

 

[PasbitinusBluinusRibbinus]

I hope you don't like lagers.....what about chilling? IC's are a bit bulky....

No chill, which is my usually process anyway. Lagers will certainly be tough to impossible, but if I start missing them, I am thinking I can use my serving fridge for a batch of lagers. Or just buy some fine commercial examples!

 

[McGarnigle]

Can you store your brewing equipment near your Bowflex machine?

 

[Transamguy77]

What about a Yurt? They are 800 sqft and if you are only needing 200 sqft of living space then the other 600 could be used for brewing. Win win in my book.

Seriously though I think it's a cool idea, you might want to look into some of the apartment brewing ideas or people that live in NY some of those places aren't much bigger than a "Tiny house".

 

[smAllGrain]

How's the Tiny House going? Saw a documentary last night on this and am very interested if you were able to get everything setup for homebrewing in a Tiny House.

 

[smAllGrain]

Hey guys,

So plans are in the work for a tiny house build next year. For those not familiar with tiny homes, they are ~200sq ft full "homes," usually built on trailers. My reasoning for going this route is being absolutely exhausted with grind of life... at 22.

It will be hard to move away from a 5 tap keezer, but I've got plans to incorporate a brewing and kegging setup in this build. Here's what I'm thinking.

Two tap keezer, built into the wall. Two 2.5 gallon kegs and a 5lb c02 tank, all mounted vertically to save on space. The taps will come out of the wall, with a fold out drip tray.

For brewing: a 3.5-4 gallon pot, BIAB with a small hook suspended from the ceiling. One 3.5 gallon bucket for fermenting. Temp control will be difficult, as I don't want to build anything for controlling fermentation temps to save on space. I can probably live with my climate control being the temperature control, as it's cheap to heat and cool such a small space.

Any thoughts? Any way to make this more compact and save on space?

Any update on this?

 

[mhochman]

Sorry to wake this old thread. Just wondering if the OP ever finished this project and, if so, can we get pictures? Tiny house is the dream for "one day" and would love to see how people are integrating HB into it.

 

[MaryB]

Storage shed! Just because your house is small you still need space for bikes, lawnmowers etc! Heck have a 20' cargo container dropped for extra storage! They can be picked up and moved as needed.

 

[motosapiens]

The term 'tiny house' is just to make people feel a little less embarassed about living in a trailer like poor white trash.

I lived in a trailer for about 18 months. I much prefer a full-sized house. I did have my brewing stuff in storage nearby, so I did some brewing, but of course I couldn't take all that junk with me when i was traveling (which is the only non-poverty-based reason for living in a trailer).

 

[chris000]

...(which is the only non-poverty-based reason for living in a trailer).

Depends on the person. For someone who likes to do and create their own stuff - be it brewing, building, even cooking, painting, a trailer or tiny home is going to be a very poor choice unless they have some decent sized other buildings available. However, there are other people who live in front of the TV or their cell phone, eat out etc.
Actually, I was thinking of it for a weekend home - save some money on the home and build a little barn in addition to it, but unfortunately local codes don't make that overly attractive in my case.