Where do you folks put your beer?

[chrispykid]

I'm in a one bedroom apartment as well - space is a challenge, especially if you don't want your entire living space to look like a shrine to malted barley. Fortunately I have a small eat-in kitchen and since I don't actually eat in it anyway I promised myself that I'd confine all brewing equipment to that room. Crossing into the rest of the apartment would be like crossing the Rubicon.

Tough to give advice for your situation without knowing the exact layout, but keep in mind that carboys don't need to accessed while they're fermenting so they're ideal to go under tables, into the corner of closets, etc. Shelving suggestions above are great, but do your back a favor and keep the carboys on the bottom shelf if you go that route.

 

[Heckle]

If your talking carboys, in a corner, under table, in a closet, etc. Bottles, any spot you can find. If you use small (12 oz) bottles, see how much room you have under the bed. Maybe you can get some stands which will raise the bed high enough to fit the bottles or brewing supplies.

I love this answer!

I told her that I would put a shirt on it and leave it in the living room while we pretended that it was a person that we didn't talk to.

She had none of that.

 

[Velcrow44]

I'm in the same situation, living with my SO now (not sure what the abbreviation used in the sticky or the OP means?)

COME ON!!! Nobody took this and ran? I am disappointed.

On topic. I am amazed and salute all the clever solutions. I waited until I bought a house with a full basement to restart brewing. Of course in the winter I had to hear " Why is the beer upstairs in the closet?" Hello...we don't heat the basement and ale don't like 52 degress so much. At least I have won her around with the taste.

 

[storunner13]

When brewing in my college dorm, I just stuck the box the carboy came in over the carboy in the corner. Despite the smell when brewing and comments heard outside the dorm kitchen such as "What's that smell?" and "It smell like cakes and dirty gym socks" or "Wow! are you making brownies? (no...)" I was never caught. And if people didn't see the empty bottles stuck in every corner (or heard a muffled "blub, blub blub"), no one would have guessed what I was doing.
So..perhaps just hide it with a box and a tablecloth...perhaps a picture frame?

 

[Quarters]

I put my fermenters inside my spare bath room. No one every uses it since its just the gf and I, so it seemed like a good spot. Not to mention the temp in their is always stable.

 

[devilishprune]

Thanks for all of the suggestions, guys.

Based on some of your advice, and some other research, I think that I will either try to fit a carboy/bucket into a kitchen cabinet somewhere. Either that, or I'll build a cabinet similar to what Bovineblitz constructed.

As far as the bottles are concerned. I found a thread that showed someone using a filing cabinet as bottle storage for 240 bottles. So not only would it look semi-professional (as if that were important), it would be functional as well.

I have nothing to add except to note that, judging by the fact that you wrote to us for advice, the term "future SWMBO" is a contradiction in terms!

Touche.

She's trying to work with me on this one, because she knows how much I've gotten into the hobby lately. I want her to keep giving me that support, especially when I continue to spend large amounts of money on beer and beer ingredients in the future.

 

[bovineblitz]

The support of SHMBO is rather important... I successfully converted mine from a wine snob to a beer snob. She's now convinced that beer is much more interesting due to the wider flavorscape and creativity involved

 

[sharpstick]

As far as the bottles are concerned. I found a thread that showed someone using a filing cabinet as bottle storage for 240 bottles. So not only would it look semi-professional (as if that were important), it would be functional as well.

that might have been me. i have 3 or 4 filing cabinet drawers that have beer in them. a standard filing cabinet drawer holds 4 six packs.

as for your gf, find a beer she likes and make some. she says she doesn't like beer? start with a framboise and see where that leads.

 

[jmo88]

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f11/my-newly-discovered-bottle-storage-unit-90478/