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Finally, construction of my nano brewery started today. Door frame was built today to accommodate a 36" steel door. My system and control panel isn't scheduled to arrive until sometime in July, but I want to have the brewery built by the time it gets here. Electrician is coming tomorrow to wire everything up. After the electrician is finished, up will go the walls and ceiling, which all need to meet fire code. I'm just glad that some things are finally getting done!

That's awesome Shane, good to see that things are getting rolling.

Yeah, it's nice to finally have a little bit of progress. I purchased this today for the brewery as well.

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When it comes to brewing, you can never have too much sink!

berley wrote:When it comes to brewing, you can never have too much sink!

Yeah, that was what I was thinking as well. The health inspector was in my house on Monday and said that I actually didn't need to go with stainless steel for the sinks......but I wanted to anyways.

I need to order a hood range for ventilation and am going to go with stainless steel for this as well. I've narrowed it down to two models, both of them have the same specs......just different looks is all. What is everyone's thoughts between the two?





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I like the round one for the look.

Congrats on the start, Shane.

I prefer the industrial look of the 2nd one, but would probably prefer the 1st one if it was in my kitchen.

Congrats Shane, that's great!

Jimmy wrote:I prefer the industrial look of the 2nd one, but would probably prefer the 1st one if it was in my kitchen.

Jimmy wrote:I prefer the industrial look of the 2nd one, but would probably prefer the 1st one if it was in my kitchen.

Yeah, that was kind of my dilemma. I actually prefer the look of the first one, but the second one has more of a commercial kind of look to it and probably a little more suiting for a brewery.

I have the 1st one in my kitchen. I would make sure the airflow is enough for what you need. i.e. I don't think it'll cut it for brewing 10+ gals.

with the first one if there was any condensation the curve might keept it from dropping directly back into the boil

I'd either build one or find something a bit more commercial in size (kijiji maybe?).

A real fan and funnel (for lack of better description) I think would be a better for exhaust.

Sandy

Thanks for the comments/feedback everyone. So you guys don't think that 900 CFM fan would be sufficient? I'm not super knowledgeable in this area, and was just going by the numbers off of Kal's electric brewery site. According to his site, I would only need 511 CFMs for my size brewery.

900 CFM sounds fine but you'll probably want a variable speed switch on it. You were probably going to do that anyways. My fan is "only" 400 CFM and does a wicked job.

Give great consideration to fan dB/location too.

My brewery equipment has finally arrived!

Needs less carboard.

Jimmy wrote:Needs less carboard.

Show us the bling!

Jimmy wrote:Needs less carboard.

way to much boxidization!

Tastes like cardboard.

Sandy

Ok, here's all the gear out of the boxes.

Nice!

Blang Blang!