Chris Van reached out to me for some more details on the plumbing of my brewery back in 2019. He’s now built his own brewery and has shared some pictures. Well done Chris!
Tag: tri clamp

2018 brewery update
An update on my brewery is quite overdue. Many changes have been made in the year+ since my last post on this in early 2017.

Brewery build pt 6: brewing vessels
There are plenty of proven homebrewery designs out there, amongst all of the ways they differ, the number of required brewing vessels is perhaps the most obvious. My new homebrewery is being built as a two vessel system. On my search of two 20-25 gallon tri clamp outfitted brew kettles in Canada, I didn’t come up with much.

Brewery build pt 5: pumps
3A sanitary pumps are out of reach to homebrewers. Their price is at least an order of magnitude higher than what most of us are able and willing to spend. Recently, some brew-it-yourself-ers who are interested in sanitary design, but not so much the associated costs, have been modifying affordable food grade stainless steel pumps to be mostly sanitary. I am now amongst…

Brewery build pt 4: fermentation and kegging
As I haven’t quite received all my equipment for wort creation just yet, I’m going to skip ahead to discuss fermentation and kegging with my new brewery. When I sold my last brewery, my conical fermentor went with it. With my new brewery having a slightly larger batch size capacity I felt it would no longer be suitable for my purposes. While I expect…