New nanobrewery coming along

[Trom-man76]

Well great time to start selling from a new nano brewery!!!
Was going to start selling in a local pub on march 31st - had got all local friends organised for opening night and then this virus buggered it!

Have ended selling through the pub in 5 litre bag in boxes from a company called jigsaw and sales are good but the beer is soooooo flat in those bag in boxes so not happy really but it is helping the local landlord and keeping people interested in local pubs. I think alot will struggle to reopen. Hope your doing ok druncan!

Got 7 casks to transfer to bags for this next weekend. People have to preorder what they want and my son and I bag the beer for them to collect from the pub. Seems to be working well as can be expected.

How's everyone else doing been? a long time since I was on

All the best

 

[Leon103]

Well done on getting things off the ground. What are you brewing

 

[Trom-man76]

Only 4 - just to get going a dark bitter, session ipa, light golden ale with German hops ( form the lager drinkers) and a hoppy red ale

 

[Asherweef]

Have you considered setting up as a limited company? Mainly for liability reasons but there will be tax savings as well. This is the king of industry where if something goes wrong you’ll be glad of the limited liability!

edited to say sorry I’m a bore as this is great, just want to make sure you’re adequately protected!

 

[Trom-man76]

Photos of the finished (nearly) garage brewery
Use brew in a bag technique and 2 100litre brew kettles. Working ok at the mo.
If goes well supping my local can upgrade to 2x200 litre kettles and increase production from 4 firkins per week to 10.
Fingers crossed

 

[DCBC]

Trom-man76 that looks incredible. I wish my wife and I had a garage. We had to fork out a load for a garden office and even then it's much smaller than a standard UK garage, and we had to go with aquastep laminate rather than a proper PE floor. We can still fit a three-vessel 100L system and we can maybe go up to 200L, It's bottle storage that's the bottleneck [edit no pun intended ].

Looking forward to seeing more photos!

 

[Paulchef]

Trom man76, that’s a fab set up, I’m currently extending my shed so that I can venture into the AG brewing, small scale for friends and family. My local brewery started back brewing yesterday, the smell in the air was fantastic (only live 100 yds away). One point you may need to get that grain off the floor it’s what environmental health will pick up on, dealt with them over the years as a chef.

 

[DCBC]

One point you may need to get that grain off the floor it’s what environmental health will pick up on, dealt with them over the years as a chef.

Thanks for the tip (not directed to me I know ) about the grain. Do you know what is acceptable? I keep mine at floor level but in two large steel boxes on castors. I assume this is OK?

If I were to scale up production I would need to get a big grain bin, sitting on the floor but obviously with a skin of steel between the grain and the floor. Is that OK?

Thanks!

 

[Paulchef]

Yes DCBC a purpose made bin is fine with a lid, rats/mice can chew through the grain bag and contaminate it

 

[DCBC]

Yes DCBC a purpose made bin is fine with a lid, rats/mice can chew through the grain bag and contaminate it

Perfect, cheers!

 

[Hagrid]

Apologies if this has been asked already, but how did you go about working out your BBE?