Congratulations. Now I’ll reconsider visiting family in the area. ;D
Way to go man! I’m really happy for you, yet blind with jealousy all at the same time. ;D
Its been a hell of a lot of work and a hell of a lot of fun. The brewing part has gone pretty smooth except for the fact that the water where I brew at now is a lot different than the water at my home and changes vastly from day to day - my pH is all over the map and requires some serious wrangling to bring it under control - we will be getting a RO system before too long. And the kegging has been a challenge and a great big learning experience. I’ve ended up screwing up a bunch of beer trying to get it into kegs.
One trick I learned - if your pH is high and you brewed yesterday you can use a small amount of spent grain to lower the pH. Works like a charm! 
Can you post some pics when you get a chance?
Becuase I’m sure you have plenty of time on your hands. 
After the rest of the equipment comes in I will post some pics. I am limping along right now.
What’s the brewery consist of…
what size BK, MT, etc…?
Damn your nosy! I mentioned it before but its been a while. essentially a 1.5 bbl brewery back to back batching into 3 bbl fermenters. We also have 4 blickmann 42 gal. conicals for specialty brews. Going to ride it out like this for a while to test the market. Not planning on making any money right now, just float the ship.
Its a lot like having a big homebrew system. I got tired of brewing the same thing over and over again for the last 2 weeks so last week I went in and brewed a Tripel. Right now its a lot of fun being small. I’ll be doing a lot of one off batches.
Keith,
Did you get your soot problem resolved? What fixed it?
Dave
That is so f-ing cool. congrats and good luck.
Yeah - the problem was 2 fold. First, we had a wind screen on that was inhibiting the air intake (since initially we were brewing outside). Second, I had to play around with the jet height. After I fixed those there was almost no soot to speak of. But, we are all electric now - which is working way, way better than I ever anticipated. No gas at all right now.
That’s excellent!
How did you hook up with The Nook, for your debut?
Ok now! You’ve GOT to post some pics of THAT! :o
the Nook is the “premiere” beer bar in town, at least for now. And if we want to sell beer there we have to launch through them. Its a pretty good place though.
As far as the electric kettle goes, I will post pics next week when I have the chance. I promise. The electric ketttle is awesome. It heats up about 3Xs faster than gas. I have two elements in my BK and if I run just one I get a very steady boil with no boil over. No wort scorching either. I was really worried about wort scorching and boil overs but it just hasn’t been a problem. I am going to do the same thing on my home system as soon as I get a chance. I love it.
Fantastic, Keith. Congrats a millions times. Sounds like you’re having a blast and making great beer. You’ll be right up there with the big dogs of craft beer in no time.
I bet Thirsty Monk is happy to hear the electric setup is going good!
I haven’t had the time to check the rest of the forum much. But tell him that the elements we are using kick gas in the nuts! ;D My partner is the one who set up the electric kettle so I honestly don’t know much about what went into it. But I can ask him.
Well you better get busy! ;D :-*
Congrats!
Add another request to see some pics, when you get the chance to do so.
If you could post some details it would be awesome. We’re all-electric but with only one element in a 5 bbl kettle bringing it up to a boil is painful. Unfortunately, I don’t think there’s anything we can do about it - the circuit is maxed out as is.
Yes I am very happy to hear that 2 elements can do just fine with 55 Gal.
I am planning to have 6 elements in about 180 gal BK.
I have dedicated 300 Amps 240 V transformer for the brewhouse.
I would be more then interested to know your electric set up.
By the way Congrats majorvices.