Brewery project

[cnelsonplumber]

Having made the decision to go AG and started to collect a few bits, it has suddenly come to my attention that I am going to have to buy a shed (brewery) to house my creation. Any one been in this position before who can offer any advice as I roughed out a design with bar and wood stove at one end and production at the other then woke up with a fright.

 

[markp]

I'm just setting up my shed brewery.
For what I want to do, I thought I'd have ample space in 6ft x 4ft......then my racking arrived and now I don't (can't fit a fridge in there).
6 x 4 was the only shed suitable for the space I have......I'll manage though :)

Sounds like you're in a better position than me with your wood burner plans :thumb:

I like the racking that I bought though......not too expensive and will work a treat for what I want.

Have fun with your build :)

 

[Muddydisco]

Something likethis would look good with a brewery in it and a log burner

Clicky

 

[pjbiker]

I could see the birth of a new thread like the 'how do you serve yours' but more 'how big is your shed, shed envy'

 

[Yorkslad]

Im a carpenter & joiner, beleive me you dont want to be paying that much for a shed/cabin on the 'clicky' link, i could build one of those from scratch for about £500, probably even less! :thumb:

 

[robsan77]

Im a carpenter & joiner, beleive me you dont want to be paying that much for a shed/cabin on the 'clicky' link, i could build one of those from scratch for about £500, probably even less! :thumb:

When I sell and move house I think I'm going to build a custom brew shed.
I thought of sinking some telegraph poles in for the corners and cladding in and out with insulation inbetween. Board and felt a simple sloped roof and deck the floor..... jobs a good un :thumb:

 

[snail59]

Im a carpenter & joiner, i could build one of those from scratch for about £500, probably even less! :thumb:

When can you pop round and make a start :rofl:

 

[BarnsleyBrewer]

Im a carpenter & joiner, i could build one of those from scratch for about £500, probably even less! :thumb:

When can you pop round and make a start :rofl:

When he's finished mine. :P

 

[Yorkslad]

Im a carpenter & joiner, beleive me you dont want to be paying that much for a shed/cabin on the 'clicky' link, i could build one of those from scratch for about £500, probably even less! :thumb:

When I sell and move house I think I'm going to build a custom brew shed.
I thought of sinking some telegraph poles in for the corners and cladding in and out with insulation inbetween. Board and felt a simple sloped roof and deck the floor..... jobs a good un :thumb:

Its as simple as that! I get timber at trade prices so costs me less than most people. You don't need anything flash anyway, just something practical that works.

 

[robsan77]

Im a carpenter & joiner, beleive me you dont want to be paying that much for a shed/cabin on the 'clicky' link, i could build one of those from scratch for about £500, probably even less! :thumb:

When I sell and move house I think I'm going to build a custom brew shed.
I thought of sinking some telegraph poles in for the corners and cladding in and out with insulation inbetween. Board and felt a simple sloped roof and deck the floor..... jobs a good un :thumb:

Its as simple as that! I get timber at trade prices so costs me less than most people. You don't need anything flash anyway, just something practical that works.

One thing I've found from renovating my house is that its all quite simple. Putting a well crafted finish on something however is a different matter but you wont get that from b and q anyway.

 

[Yorkslad]

True, anything flat packed is just factory made with not much thought, best off getting a skilled tradesman to design and build it for you :thumb:

 

[pjbiker]

This is my shed, knocked up for about £500 by me and my dad in a weekend (retired joiner). Building the solid base took some hard grafting over a couple of weekends though.
I might put up the photos I took when I built it sometime
see first picture

viewtopic.php?p=140062#p140062

 

[cnelsonplumber]

I'm thinking along the same lines and have ordered a blueplan shed DVD off the web for a couple of quid. Can always use it as a beer mat if it's not up to much

 

[evanvine]

Yes, a dedicated shed would be sheer luxury. :mrgreen:
You can run water to it via a hosepipe, power by a couple of 13A extensions, but what about a drain?

 

[Sean_Mc]

Dig a bliddy big hole outside the shed fill it with rocks and you have a soak away to drain to

 

[evanvine]

Dig a bliddy big hole outside the shed fill it with rocks and you have a soak away to drain to

Yes, thought about that, but wouldn't it soon get full of hops, grain and yeas etc.
Besides it's too much like hard work!

 

[pjbiker]

I've posted a new topic on building a shed.

viewtopic.php?p=140265#p140265

Regarding the soakaway, I was going to do that but my dad advised against it. However, I still pour the odd bucketful around the shed when washing and sanitising, and run a hose to hollow dug at the base of a tree when running off the water from the CFC at the end of the day. It soaks away OK. All the hops and yeast and stuff goes in compost bins.

 

[Sean_Mc]

After digging out an old elm tree stump (two weekends) I had my soak away done. Just water goes to it.