So my new roommates (mostly BMC drinkers surprisingly) have developed a taste for my homebrew, so much that they want it on tap at all times. I do my brewing at my parent's house right now, they live about an hour away but have plenty of room now that my brother and I are in college. I live in an upstairs loft with plenty of room for my equipment and fermenters, but I'd be doing the brewing outside since I don't want to die of CO asphyxiation. Now here's where I have the predicament: we live downtown on a semi-busy street, so it's not like I have a front yard or driveway to brew on. I have the following options:
1) Brew on sidewalk. For cooling I'd either have to carry the hot wort up a flight of stairs and into our kitchen to put our wort chiller in, or get a super duper long hose rig that runs from our kitchen to the sidewalk. Also, it's a somewhat busy sidewalk and it might not be appreciated that I'm taking up so much space out there.
2) Brew on the roof. We can climb through a window from our kitchen onto the roof (technically frowned upon, but we do it "occasionally" and nothing bad happens), and I could brew out there out of sight and be close enough to a sink for a regular hose to reach the brew kettle, so getting the wort back inside wouldn't be so dangerous.
3) Brew at my friends' house. She lives a few blocks from campus in a quiet part of town, but the only bad thing I could see from this is being an annoyance since I'd be brewing quite frequently (I live with 9 other guys, and there's only one of us who doesn't drink. You can imagine how fast we'd go through 5 gallons). I'm sure supplying her and her roommates with a pretty constant supply of beer would ease things over, but I really don't want to turn into "that guy".
4) Go electric and brew inside. This would pretty much be over my head right now with equipment costs, but if I did this I'd probably just go straight to 10 gallon batches.
So which option would you go for? Also, if anybody has any other suggestions I'm all ears.
1) Brew on sidewalk. For cooling I'd either have to carry the hot wort up a flight of stairs and into our kitchen to put our wort chiller in, or get a super duper long hose rig that runs from our kitchen to the sidewalk. Also, it's a somewhat busy sidewalk and it might not be appreciated that I'm taking up so much space out there.
2) Brew on the roof. We can climb through a window from our kitchen onto the roof (technically frowned upon, but we do it "occasionally" and nothing bad happens), and I could brew out there out of sight and be close enough to a sink for a regular hose to reach the brew kettle, so getting the wort back inside wouldn't be so dangerous.
3) Brew at my friends' house. She lives a few blocks from campus in a quiet part of town, but the only bad thing I could see from this is being an annoyance since I'd be brewing quite frequently (I live with 9 other guys, and there's only one of us who doesn't drink. You can imagine how fast we'd go through 5 gallons). I'm sure supplying her and her roommates with a pretty constant supply of beer would ease things over, but I really don't want to turn into "that guy".
4) Go electric and brew inside. This would pretty much be over my head right now with equipment costs, but if I did this I'd probably just go straight to 10 gallon batches.
So which option would you go for? Also, if anybody has any other suggestions I'm all ears.