Sadly not a sci fi movie about a brewery in outer space, nope this is a bit of an explanation, and a bit of an apology for why I've not been around the forum or sent off beers as planned.
I was mid rebuild of my CO2 piping supply when the roofing contractors came to replace our 45 year old slightly leaky flat roof. From day one we have had gallons of water pouring in through the ceilings, my daughter had to move out of her room, the ceiling has been brought down. In my brew space everything is coated in dirty water, the plug electrics have fused, my fermenting and serving fridges are soaked, the immersion heater electrics have fused. All my fermenting buckets - including the 60 litre ones are collecting dirty water dripping or pouring through the ceiling, and the boiler vent is temporarily blocked so the garage is full of gas boiler exhaust fumes, so any time in the garage has to be transient. Over the last week for 3 nights I had to be up during the middle of the night to empty some of the buckets so they didn't overflow.
Yesterday a completely new roofing team showed up, were aghast at the mess and removed almost all the previous work and got a lot done - we are still having leaks though, but not as bad but there's still work to be done. Oh and we've contractors in doing stuff with the windows so there is dust everywhere!
Sooo... long way of explaining I can't pour a beer, can't make anything, can't package anything and feel pretty stressed by the whole thing. My entire brewspace is going to need cleaned, caustic, and sanitised.
I was mid rebuild of my CO2 piping supply when the roofing contractors came to replace our 45 year old slightly leaky flat roof. From day one we have had gallons of water pouring in through the ceilings, my daughter had to move out of her room, the ceiling has been brought down. In my brew space everything is coated in dirty water, the plug electrics have fused, my fermenting and serving fridges are soaked, the immersion heater electrics have fused. All my fermenting buckets - including the 60 litre ones are collecting dirty water dripping or pouring through the ceiling, and the boiler vent is temporarily blocked so the garage is full of gas boiler exhaust fumes, so any time in the garage has to be transient. Over the last week for 3 nights I had to be up during the middle of the night to empty some of the buckets so they didn't overflow.
Yesterday a completely new roofing team showed up, were aghast at the mess and removed almost all the previous work and got a lot done - we are still having leaks though, but not as bad but there's still work to be done. Oh and we've contractors in doing stuff with the windows so there is dust everywhere!
Sooo... long way of explaining I can't pour a beer, can't make anything, can't package anything and feel pretty stressed by the whole thing. My entire brewspace is going to need cleaned, caustic, and sanitised.
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. No CO2 supply mind you... and it looks increasingly bleak for everything else, but hey at least I can pour a cold beer while the keg pressure holds up.
