New brewery placement

[Northern Brewer]

I was going to put the brewery in my workshop but I've decided to clear out one of the cellar rooms in the barn and fix the leak and turn it into a brewery and a place to occasionally process meat - we used to keep pigs until the kids came along, the youngest will be able to hold a feed bucket soon so we will probably get more pigs next year.
Here's a few views of the room, it has a small water leak, its largely underground however I know how to fix it, there's no water pressure to deal with as I put in a drain behind the wall when I built it.
Outside the cellar room. The silver couloured panel to the left is a 50mm kingspan cored galvanised steel/powder coated roofing panel that I acquired ages ago for nothing and has been looking for a use ever since - a fancy FV cupboard springs to mind

This shows the back of the room - just an old BBQ in there at present after clearing out all the crud at the weekend.

Here's the room looking out - the water leak is on the bottom right. I'll fix the dodgy pointing and tank it. The floor is going to be tiled with the cheapest non-slip tiles my tiler friend can find. I'll put a 150mm core drill through the wall to the right of the door for an air vent for the copper and a 42mm drain through the bottom of the same wall.

The last one is my first pass at a floor plan with the copper nearest the air vent to save on ducting, I have a bit left over from when I did the kitchen extractor. Somewhere on this site I've seen and excellent copper extraction system which I will shamelessly plagiarise.

I have two problems - 1.) thinking of an original name for the brewery 2.) whether to use SS tables like these as shown in the floor plan or to make some clever frame from square section or unistrut with a tipping action to help clear out the mash/trub etc. Any ideas?

 

[Springer]

Dual purpose, like it, my brewery is being changed to accommodate honey processing.
Mind your head when you climb out of that door in the third pic NB. :lol:
S

 

[Frisp]

thinking of an original name for the brewery

The Bunker Brewery,,

 

[Northern Brewer]

Mind your head when you climb out of that door in the third pic NB. :lol:
S

Thankfully that RSJ is at the far end of the barn, however I am follically challenged and like all slap heads I tend to find every possible thing to bang my head on and I usually sport at least one scab on my head as a badge of honour. :grin:

 

[Northern Brewer]

thinking of an original name for the brewery

The Bunker Brewery,,

Like it! Pity we have some synaptically challenged right wing nutters in town that may get the wrong idea There are some old mine workings nearby so I could continue the theme that way.

 

[graysalchemy]

Many years ago I worked on a highland estate and brewed kits in the deer larder so I called my brewery the stags head brewery so on that note I would call it the boars head brewery.

 

[screamlead]

I'd name it after those old green and white buses 'Tod' used to have - the Tod Tank brewery!! lol
PS i originate from Heptonstall but my rellys are all from Tod! :

 

[Northern Brewer]

I'd name it after those old green and white buses 'Tod' used to have - the Tod Tank brewery!! lol
PS i originate from Heptonstall but my rellys are all from Tod! :

I've only been in Todmorden about 12 years so I'm still an interloper and can't remember the buses however this is an example I believe

I go to the Cross in Heptonstall for the Thursday quiz now my local the Sportsmans (AKA the Kebs) has closed :cry:

Tod tank - not a bad name for a brewery :) the Leyden brewery in nearby Bury name their session beer after a local bus, the Nanny Flyer.

 

[screamlead]

Yep thats the colours of them but the old ones when i was a nipper were built like tanks! rivets everywhere.
Used to go in cross too but not been for years used to go in Lion too.
Cnat believe Kebs has shut down - regular lock in haunt that was.

 

[Northern Brewer]

Yes the kebs was one of the top ten highest pubs in England at 1350ft - probably about number 4 or 5 but now shut, owners retiring and they want more than its worth as a pub - well they have had no takers put it that way.

Buses like this?

and/or this?

 

[screamlead]

PMSL both ha ha the 65 Pudsey was a regular down the valley and the bottom one - charra used to go over the tops to burnley - back in the 60's lol

 

[Frisp]

How about
Man cave brewery.
or
The pigs sausage Brewery
or
Trotters

make some clever frame from square section or unistrut with a tipping action to help clear out the mash/trub etc.

I have thought about this very question for my build...
What Im going to do I place my HLT on a rack above my MT and HX. And Im putting the MT and HX and Pump on a small trolley setup. Im using camlocks which will allow me to wheel the lot outside for tipping .

 

[Vossy1]

Brewing Underground (Play on Jam lyrics)
Wish I had that sort of space :mrgreen:

 

[Northern Brewer]

make some clever frame from square section or unistrut with a tipping action to help clear out the mash/trub etc.

I have thought about this very question for my build...
What Im going to do I place my HLT on a rack above my MT and HX. And Im putting the MT and HX and Pump on a small trolley setup. Im using camlocks which will allow me to wheel the lot outside for tipping .

I like that idea Frisp - mobile brewing platform. :thumb: I think I'm going to get most of mine built on static stainless steel tables then work this one out later - I can either put wheels on one of the tables or build something bespoke and use the tables for sausage making as I will need them for that.

 

[Northern Brewer]

Brewing Underground (Play on Jam lyrics)

That's anojther good suggestion, keep them coming guys! :grin:

Wish I had that sort of space :mrgreen:

Comes at a price though - will cost me a lot to waterproof the cellar and tile the floor - money I could have spent on shiny things :cry:

 

[Vossy1]

will cost me a lot to waterproof the cellar and tile the floor

Can you not run the water off to a lower point instead, I know it's not ideal but might not cost a thing :hmm:
We've one of the pre fab concrete garages, leaks like a sieve. I got 'round it' by putting a 'channel' in the concrete all the way round the base near the wall, and then sank a drain at the lowest point...twas the only way I could do it

 

[Northern Brewer]

Can you not run the water off to a lower point instead, I know it's not ideal but might not cost a thing :hmm:
We've one of the pre fab concrete garages, leaks like a sieve. I got 'round it' by putting a 'channel' in the concrete all the way round the base near the wall, and then sank a drain at the lowest point...twas the only way I could do it

Too late Vossy! - ordered the damproofing for delivery tomorrow. There is a run off to the door but its very slight, not as much as I specified when building it. Outside the door the barn will occassionally be full of various animals, chickens, pigs and occasionally cattle, the larger beasts will be behind a gate however one of the reasons I'm tiling it is to increase the run off and to make sure its higher inside the room than outside...... - we'll put a bit of screed in first before laying the tiles - will also make it easier to sanitise - bound to get some FYM on your boots occasionally!

 

[Frisp]

I came up with the trolley idea simply to aid with emptying, My bad back wouldn put up with emptying a full MT from waist height,,,, It has the added bonus of allowing me to Fill the MT and to sparge using gravity alone..

 

[Northern Brewer]

I came up with the trolley idea simply to aid with emptying, My bad back wouldn put up with emptying a full MT from waist height,,,, It has the added bonus of allowing me to Fill the MT and to sparge using gravity alone..

I currently dump the spent grain straight from my 20L mash tun into the field, the cows love it. Not going to be able to do that with the new 100L shiny as easiily, so I either scoop it out or pour into smaller containers or I buy one of those huge council "sludge gobblers" that they use to empty roadside drains - more toys

 

[Frisp]

Dontvyou have a grain auger. That would empty it. Lol What's in the floor above your man cave. You could have your grains in a hopper above your MT to aid soughing in.