Dream on Squire.

[PD]

Dream with me a while.......

Your lucks come up. Good ol Camelot has shone her light on you and you have banked more money than Tony Blair makes from public speaking.
You have no financial worries, your settled into a nice big house with some space around you, kids are all booked into a far away public school and the wife is settled comfortably with her beauty spa's and weeks away.
You decide you want to continue with your home beer making. ( do you ? )
What sort of home brewery would you decide on ? What building/outhouse or shed would you want.
Do you want an attached bar for your parties and friends.
What size brews would you aim at
What equipment do you want
Come on …...... share a dream...we all have them.

 

[BigYin]

What, just one brewery? .....

I think at least two are required - a larger one for the big batches, complete with large conical fermenter, and a smaller one for experimenting...

Then there's the malt storage room, the massive hops freezer, the yeast lab, the man cave for building brewing goodies, and the various bars in the house, snooker room, pool house etc etc....

 

[narmour]

As long as I had an enormous cellar, a temperature controlled brew room, a huge 10 bedroom house with pool table, bar area and swimming pool for parties, a disgustingly powerful RIB, a Landy for towing and a Jag for a runabout, I would be happy. I don't think that's too much to ask.

 

[PD]

Heres mine.....

The house has a full length open deck overlooking a large lake to the rear,off to the side there's a two storey brick building housing The Piddle Spot my brewery.
the front is done out like a small french cafe with a large picture window overlooking the lakes, a few bistro tables and chairs are dotted about. A wide door leads inside to a small comfortable room, decorated in the style of a country pub from my younger days,dark wood and brass abound. A small bar houses the couple of pumps with glass shelves at the rear.
A door leads through.......
here we have the brewery, not large as only small quantities of quality beers are produced. To one side stands the automatic Brewmeister for those lazy brews we all like.To the other side is a sparkling 3 vessel shiny set up on a stainless bench, pipes and pumps are much in evidence. Stainless steel benches fill the other walls. Several fermenter's are lined up with a heated cabinet to one side.A smaller room leads off to the side containing the immediate storage area for grains and hops, all neat in their individual perspex fronted containers. The rest is taken up with the out of sight equipment for the pumps and kegs.
a further door leads upstairs to a much large open space, used for bulk grain storage, there's a little door in the wall with an outside hoist to lift the sacks from ground level...
Well you get the idea.....come on Mrs Camelot get your finger out, I'm fed up with waiting.

 

[Archtronics]

I would like an old farmhouse with a courtyard of out buildings and a small orchard within strolling distant of a good pub.

 

[TRXnMe]

Three storey house with a cellar, ground floor is a garage cum bar area, first floor is living and dining, 5 or 6 en suite bedrooms on the top floor. I don't want it too big or I'll be squandering all my cash on a cleaner

The cellar would be kitted out with a decent size, say 200 litre, brewery, shiny obvioulsy, for brewing perfected beers for friends and family when they visit.

It would also have a 20 lite setup for experimental brews.

A decent freezer for hops and a coupld of fridges for yeast etc.

If it was a smaller win, say a few hundred k then I'd just buy a pub, fit it out with a micro brewery and good quality kitchen and see if I could brew ale good enough to make people come back for it. I enjoy cooking, enjoy brewing and like a natter over a pint, the rest of the hard graft is what being able to do that costs

 

[Frogfurlong]

I would get a combination brewhouse/pub/distillery/restaurant thing :lol:


Oh and I'd get one of these too Clicky for toy link

 

[big brew ejit]

Nice house in the country with old character. Must have dogs danglies for a kitchen with nice conservatory type dining area overlooking a valley or lake etc. The usual ensuite rooms, home cinema etc.

Outside, some outhouses for gardening equipment and large garage for 3 or 4 cars.
Orchard with west country cider varieties and a few of other fruit trees for wine etc. Separate hobby vineyard. A few acres to rear my own meat, lamb, beef, pork venison and some chix oh and some land for veg.

Home brewery 100 lt set up would probably be enough with 20 lt set up for experimental use. On one side would be the backroom like storage for grain and for the cider/wine. On the other side would be glass frontage then a bar but the bar would be dropped down approx 4' so people sitting at the professionally crafted bar or some of the tables with glass walls that can open back so the bar is fully open with a view over the valley, lake etc.

Just my dream, still buying the tickets.

 

[jonewer]

Actually, I'm perfectly happy with 23 litre batches.

Enough that I dont have to brew too often, not so much that I have to wait too long for my next experiment.

I'd have a few acres of orchards for cider and heritage interest, plus a few (hundred) acres of land just for the sake of having it. And a shotgun I can wave at people and shout "get orf moi laaand!"

Apart from that, not much really. Just a kitchen the size of a tennis court, indoor bowling, swimming pool, shooting range, sauna, gym etc..

Not much to ask really is it