soGGy
Active Member
I've been making 5 gallon mini mash batches for far too long. I have big dreams of going commercial and I understand that economies of scale is everything in the craft beer world. I'm planning on building a HERMs system and I can't make up my mind on batch size. I know I want to go 10 gallons + but the question is how much.
When you get your TTB license anything under a 1bbl system is unfeasible, even a 1bbl system isn't very efficient.
Yet as a homebrewer fermenting batches over 10 gallons seems like a PITA and the cost of conical fermenters for batches 10 gallons - 1 bbl are too steep for any sort of reasonable ROI. Yet I can only fit so many plastic buckets in my closet and racking batches is labor intensive which is equally inefficient.
There's another homebrewer in my city who just recently got his TTB. He's brewing on a 20 gallon morebeer sculpture and he's stated he will need to scale soon.
Another individual who's BJCP stated 20 gallon batches were the best balance from HB to commercial and that 20 gallon recipes scaled easy.
ATM I'm thinking just a 10 gallon HERMs system for the time being until I scale to at least a 3 bbl pilot system. :rockin:
Thoughts?
When you get your TTB license anything under a 1bbl system is unfeasible, even a 1bbl system isn't very efficient.
Yet as a homebrewer fermenting batches over 10 gallons seems like a PITA and the cost of conical fermenters for batches 10 gallons - 1 bbl are too steep for any sort of reasonable ROI. Yet I can only fit so many plastic buckets in my closet and racking batches is labor intensive which is equally inefficient.
There's another homebrewer in my city who just recently got his TTB. He's brewing on a 20 gallon morebeer sculpture and he's stated he will need to scale soon.
Another individual who's BJCP stated 20 gallon batches were the best balance from HB to commercial and that 20 gallon recipes scaled easy.
ATM I'm thinking just a 10 gallon HERMs system for the time being until I scale to at least a 3 bbl pilot system. :rockin:
Thoughts?