Thanks to everyone who came to Home Brew Day. The maiden voyage of our brewery system was a success. We still have some work to do to make it 100%, but the end product will be beer soon and thats what counts. We’ll get all of the photos up and organized ASAP, and Ill be back on track with the Beer of the Week this Thursday(it was sacrificed last week in the name of finishing our brewery).
Home Brew Day 2010
If you’ve been following the blog at all, you will know that the upgrade is on when it comes to brewing equipment. With the new brewery that Hops and I are building, we will be able to more then double the output of brew day. SO…to be ready for that I decided to make the transition to kegging because, really, who wants to bottle 12 gallons of beer…uuugggghhh! So I ordered some kegs and kegerator conversion and put those bad boys in place.
I also decided since Id be making much larger batches of beer, that I might as well start buying uncrushed grain in bulk, and well…that requires a grain milling table.
Oh, and while I was at it, I decided…if Im gonna make big batches of beer…I might as well be able to make lagers…….? Yeah, that was a reach, but I bought a Johnson Controler and set my self up with a lagering fridge any way.
Here are some photos of the new conversions…
I made the journey to Miledgeville, GA this past weekend to get a taste of a RIMS in action. The system was built by a high-school/home-brewing friend of mine, and it is quite impressive. While the RIMS was cool, I came away more excited then ever about making beer on a bigger scale. Of course, after seeing Joe’s 50 Gallon pots with a 100lb grain bill in action and putting 22 gallons of Pale Ale in his 27 gallon stainless steel conical…its hard not to get excited about large scale brewing. A big part of the mini-brewery Hops and I are making is the move to 12 gallon batches and kegging of the final product, and while Im still excited about that, Ive already got an eye on bigger, bigger, and bigger!! Some of the ingenuity of Joe’s brewery was quite impressive, so look to see some of those changes on our final product in the future, and Ill be sure to give credit where its due.
Thanks for the great brew day Joe and Ill look forward to seeing River and Valley on shelves soon!
