We have a 20 Bbl ABE brewhouse, which gives us the ability to get through 3 turns a day. Usually 4 hours a turn, but sometimes it can be a little longer depending on the beer we are making. Out of our 9 fermenters only 3 of them are 60 bbls, so triple brew days aren't everyday (thankgod). Just thought I'd share. Love your videos. I watched a few about a year ago when I first started at the brewery I am at now. It's my first ever brewer gig and I have no prior experience in the industry, and therefore am thankful that I found your videos for they truly helped me understand the general overall process of brewing. Even though every single brewery and microbrewery do things a little bit different, making beer is making beer. Cheers 🍻
By far the best in detail. If it's 20min+ long it's either sh.t or well cared for and full of info. Your's is the latter. Thank you. I love the community of brewing (mostly ;).
Hey Jasper. Have just got onto Brewery Life and loving every bit of it. Spent a lot of time drinking in Micro Breweries staring at the equipment and wondering exactly how it all works. You have an ability to make a simple explanation for the bulk of it. Love your work and keep the videos coming. Cheers!
Hey Jasper, Thanks for my own private tour of your brewhouse. Your awesome for taking the time to show us the nooks and crannies of the brewing system. The manifold system you have to control flows is really cool. I understand what your saying about labels on the valves -if you don't know what you're doing, then don't touch it!- but on early brew days and maybe a cup of coffee short, it might be nice to have a reminder - Ha! Thanks again for the look over your shoulder view of operations. I hope to get up there one day soon to say "Hi" and enjoy a brew with you. Cheers, from CO Springs, CO.
Right on! Yup, take everything I say with a grain of salt. It may be better to label everything.. Tip #2, never run out of coffee! Ill be here drinking if the adventure ever brings you my way, cheers!
very cool jasper ! I really appreciate the ability to see what a real brewhouse looks like . I think when you homebrew..even if you have a similar basic system ...you really do not understand what a big leap it is to go into a commercial system . It is actually kind of intimidating in a way....kind of like the more you learn ..the more you realize how much you really don't know ! Thanks for these vids...keep it up,,,they are really appreciated out in the homebrewer world!
Thanks for the comment! I've learned enough about beer to realize I know nothing about beer. One can spend their whole life studying beer and only scratch the surface of this amazing beverage, cheers!
Starting some formal brewing education soon. These videos, man. I'll be studying them to and thru semester start. Great info, great insight, clear and concise descriptions and processes...what a service to those looking. Thank you dude, for real.
AWESOME! thanks so much for sharing this! I know it takes a lot of time out of your day to put this together, but it's really informative and super helpful. Cheers to you!
Hi Michael, This is Cody from Grainbrew_Tiantai in China. We are manufacture specially for beer brewing system and we can design and give reasonable advice to our customers. For any doubts or questions, please feel free to let me know. We'd love to offer our full support to your brewery project. E-mail: grainbrew@cnbrewery.com www.grainbrew.com
Just ran into your video! Super awesome. I really loved going to your Brewery! Good food and excellent beer. That's for sharing your brew equipment with us!
Wow. Learned a lot. I’m still very new at this. Do you have a video of actually brewing to get an idea of the real thing. I know it takes 5+ hours to brew. But maybe short videos combined in to 1.
Hi Sameul, This is Cody from Grainbrew_Tiantai in China. We are manufacture specially for beer brewing system and we can design and give reasonable advice to our customers. For any doubts or questions, please feel free to let me know. We'd love to offer our full support to your brewery project. E-mail: grainbrew@cnbrewery.com www.grainbrew.com
thanks Jasper. This is a great video. Can I ask some questions? Are you happy with the system? What's your efficiency? Are your whirpool and direct fire system efficient? I plan to go a system just like yours.
Loving your videos bro - was looking at Premier at CBC this year and was really impressed with their finish quality. You really shoe horned that puppy into your space ! Do you find the lack on head space on the brew platform a pain ? (hopefully not to literally !)
Fantastic series overall. Are there any on how to sanitize the big hoses? Are they stored with sanitizer, or is is poured in an end before hook-up to the brewhouse or FV/bright?
Great video series jasper, very informative, keep em up!!! One questions though, with only one pump how to you pump sparge water into MT while also pumping wort to BK?
Good question! The stacked mash tun is sitting high enough above the kettle fill volume to allow for gravity to fill kettle (No need for grant/pump), Cheers!
The stacked brewhouse structure generally with Mash/lauter tun on top, with whirlpool tun or HLT at bottom. Compard with the common two vessel with separated HLT, this strcture need smaller footprint, that could help to save space, but need higher ceiling. For the 10bbl brewhouse, the MLT generally with motor (for grain rake) on top of the tank. Besides, the MLT need to installed with grist silo or hydrator etc, these things would be not easy if with MLT at bottom.
Hi Jaime, This is Cody from Grainbrew_Tiantai in China. We are manufacture specially for beer brewing system and we can design and give reasonable advice to our customers. For any doubts or questions, please feel free to let me know. We'd love to offer our full support to your brewery project. E-mail: grainbrew@cnbrewery.com www.grainbrew.com
great video Jasper. what are the pros and cons to having a stacked mash/hot liquor tun verses a separate hot liquor tank? which do you prefer? I've never used a stacked.
Thanks! The major pro of stacked MT/HLT are the smaller footprint they take up. (More room for tables in a pub). Other pros are, The heat from the HLT actually preheats the MT above it. Also it is in close proximity of the MT, so losing heat from hoses during strike temp in minimal. Pros of a separate HLT, Major, is it can hold a larger volume. This makes multiple batches in a day easier. It is independent of Brewhouse, if BH needs to be turned off youll still have HL. It can be installed in a different room of the brewery. They're both awesome, I guess I prefer a stacked setup simply because I enjoy Pub brewing and I choose not to be a production brewer. However this is not a concrete rule (staked can be used for production and separate can be used for pubs). Cheers!
Hi there, great video, can I just ask you, who makes this equipment, is it just one company that comes in and set up everything I see on your video or is it more than one?, and what would be the approximate investment in a 10bbl plant like this, thanks.
Thanks. This is a Premier Stainless brewhouse. There are companies that will come design and set up breweries. Personally I have been upgrading parts since I've opened and doing everything myself. Total cost of plant is hard to say because it combines commercial real estate. I would recommend contacting Premier, they can give you a quote and set you up with any total all in one package you would be interested in. Hope this helps, Cheers
Great channel Jasper! I've got some questions for youu: what's the total surface area of your brewery? how many FVs and BBT do you have? Are those unitanks to use also to carbonate beer? Thanks!
For a turnkey 10bbl system included grain miller, two vessel brewhouse unit, 4x10bbl fermenters, the glycol system (both of GWT and chillers), control unit and CIP cart. It would need at least 70~80M2. Absolutly if you plan to have more fermenters, brite tanks or plan to do bottling or kegging etc, more space should be on site. We have ever desgined different types of brewery layout according to our customers' location, if you need, we can share some with you as reference. For the fermenters, some brewers prefer to have carbonation and leveling glass, as it could help to have a better beer brewing experience. But some brewers do not like to have these devices considering of a higher sanitary level. You know the less dead corner, the better for fermenters. Welcome to email me if you prefer a further discussion :) trade@cnbrewery.com
After you mix grains and water in the mash tun, do I have to open the stiring function at all time? would that increase the efficiency and would that cause me hard to withdraw the wort after the process if I keep stiring it at all time?
Generally speaking, there is no specific rules for stiring during mashing. But mostly of the brewers prefer to keep stiring during feeding and during temperature raising process. When you start counting, it is available to keep the agitator still, you know the stiring may increase the content of NHF that would cause difficulty in the next lautering process. But there are a few of brewers in Europe especially in germany prefer to keep stiring since feeding until the sparging finished, absolutely the rotating speed must be slow enough. Please feel free to contact us if you prefer a further discuss: trade@cnbrewery.com
This is so Helpful!!!! I'm just getting into an brewer apprenticeship and we use a 5bbl system just like this by Century. Who makes this system? Very good stuff so helpful!
Thanks for watching! A batch takes around 6hrs. However with prep and final cleaning, brewdays are around 9hrs long. It is possible to do 2 batches/day but for one person it would be a lot of work on this brewhouse. Hot water usage needs to be thought about more as well. Cheers!
The mash tun temp sensor will show how 170F sparge water is moving through the bed. The Kettle temp sensor will show the temp of the collected wort. Also a sample valve on the mash tun drain can be used to collect a sample and check temp. Cheers!
Hey! I probably did not explain myself. When saccharification is completed do you start filtration immediately? Or do you rise up the temp somehow before starting with the filtration?
Very nice video. Nice brew haus, however you say "wart" Wart is a growth on your skin. Wort (Pronounced wert, by people who care about industry lingo) is the sweet hot liquor that is derived from the mashing process. Lets clean it up bro, and teach people correctly!
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thank you for teaching me how to run my small town family brewery
Cheers!
Years later, still the best video
This is the best video on how a real brewery runs that I have ever seen. Thank you.
You're welcome, Cheers!
a trick : you can watch movies at Flixzone. Me and my gf have been using it for watching lots of of movies these days.
@David Marley Yup, have been watching on flixzone for years myself =)
We have a 20 Bbl ABE brewhouse, which gives us the ability to get through 3 turns a day. Usually 4 hours a turn, but sometimes it can be a little longer depending on the beer we are making. Out of our 9 fermenters only 3 of them are 60 bbls, so triple brew days aren't everyday (thankgod). Just thought I'd share. Love your videos. I watched a few about a year ago when I first started at the brewery I am at now. It's my first ever brewer gig and I have no prior experience in the industry, and therefore am thankful that I found your videos for they truly helped me understand the general overall process of brewing. Even though every single brewery and microbrewery do things a little bit different, making beer is making beer. Cheers 🍻
this channel is amazing thanks so much for your videos
It's like my 1st/training day working at your brewery. Well done sir!
I cant tell you how value your show is!!!!!!!! i dont know any youtube channel that goes into this much depth of commercial brewery equipment. Cheers!
Thank you! I sure couldn't find any channels thoughout the years that were willing to help, glad your enjoying, Cheers!
By far the best in detail. If it's 20min+ long it's either sh.t or well cared for and full of info. Your's is the latter. Thank you. I love the community of brewing (mostly ;).
Hey Jasper. Have just got onto Brewery Life and loving every bit of it. Spent a lot of time drinking in Micro Breweries staring at the equipment and wondering exactly how it all works. You have an ability to make a simple explanation for the bulk of it. Love your work and keep the videos coming. Cheers!
This has to be the best video on microbrewing. Congratz man!
Awesome video on how a microbrewery setup works.
That is a sweet system. You are a brewing encyclopedia. I am watching all of your videos. Thank you.
Hey Jasper, Thanks for my own private tour of your brewhouse. Your awesome for taking the time to show us the nooks and crannies of the brewing system. The manifold system you have to control flows is really cool. I understand what your saying about labels on the valves -if you don't know what you're doing, then don't touch it!- but on early brew days and maybe a cup of coffee short, it might be nice to have a reminder - Ha! Thanks again for the look over your shoulder view of operations. I hope to get up there one day soon to say "Hi" and enjoy a brew with you. Cheers, from CO Springs, CO.
Right on! Yup, take everything I say with a grain of salt. It may be better to label everything.. Tip #2, never run out of coffee! Ill be here drinking if the adventure ever brings you my way, cheers!
Super thorough. Went to your website, great story about how you started. Cheers!
Very informative!! Keep them coming! Good job!
Thanks!
very cool jasper ! I really appreciate the ability to see what a real brewhouse looks like . I think when you homebrew..even if you have a similar basic system ...you really do not understand what a big leap it is to go into a commercial system . It is actually kind of intimidating in a way....kind of like the more you learn ..the more you realize how much you really don't know ! Thanks for these vids...keep it up,,,they are really appreciated out in the homebrewer world!
Thanks for the comment! I've learned enough about beer to realize I know nothing about beer. One can spend their whole life studying beer and only scratch the surface of this amazing beverage, cheers!
great looking installation .. nice !
This is so awesome. Such a helpful level of transparency!
Starting some formal brewing education soon. These videos, man. I'll be studying them to and thru semester start. Great info, great insight, clear and concise descriptions and processes...what a service to those looking. Thank you dude, for real.
very complete. thx
AWESOME! thanks so much for sharing this! I know it takes a lot of time out of your day to put this together, but it's really informative and super helpful. Cheers to you!
TH-cam does take a lot... I enjoy sharing ideas and connecting with beer loving people, so thanks for being active!
Hi Michael, This is Cody from Grainbrew_Tiantai in China. We are manufacture specially for beer brewing system and we can design and give reasonable advice to our customers.
For any doubts or questions, please feel free to let me know. We'd love to offer our full support to your brewery project.
E-mail: grainbrew@cnbrewery.com www.grainbrew.com
Very informative, thanks!
Great vídeos! Thanks a lot! About to start my 250L nanobrewery in Brazil and your vídeos are a great help!
Hey Jasper, whatsup man, long time no videos..............pls put some videos on ur channel..........cheers and stay safe...
Great video! Just studying for my GCB and it was a great help. Cheers!
Just ran into your video! Super awesome. I really loved going to your Brewery! Good food and excellent beer. That's for sharing your brew equipment with us!
This is awesome! Keep doing this Jasper! Cheers.
Thanks!
I just love watching your series. I have learned so much I am looking forward to opening my own brewery. Thanks a lot for your efforts.
Awesome video guys. I've been waiting for a brew house video! I would love to see your milling process and the connections to the MT.
Glad you liked it! We will def. do some vids on grain handling.
This is way more intense than the two bucket system I've got at home hashtaghomebrewerlife. Same principles at work though. Interesting video!
+Bierlee Thanks!
Wow. Learned a lot. I’m still very new at this. Do you have a video of actually brewing to get an idea of the real thing. I know it takes 5+ hours to brew. But maybe short videos combined in to 1.
this a really helpful about to start from .5bbl to 5bbl the system is like yours (pub style) so thanks!!
+samuel de lara Awesome to hear! I remember wishing there was a video like this before I bought, glad it helped
Hi Sameul, This is Cody from Grainbrew_Tiantai in China. We are manufacture specially for beer brewing system and we can design and give reasonable advice to our customers.
For any doubts or questions, please feel free to let me know. We'd love to offer our full support to your brewery project.
E-mail: grainbrew@cnbrewery.com www.grainbrew.com
cool
Love your vids guys, keep 'em coming ;) Would love to see a timelaps of a brewday on your system :)
Thanks! I'm not sure my cell phone can handle that much vid..
thanks Jasper. This is a great video.
Can I ask some questions? Are you happy with the system? What's your efficiency? Are your whirpool and direct fire system efficient? I plan to go a system just like yours.
Yes I'm very happy with this,
It's a great pub system but I wouldn't recommend for a production brewhouse. Has industry standard efficiencys.
@@brewerylife3596 Why not for a production? What limitations do you have? (great video btw!)
Loving your videos bro - was looking at Premier at CBC this year and was really impressed with their finish quality. You really shoe horned that puppy into your space ! Do you find the lack on head space on the brew platform a pain ? (hopefully not to literally !)
Fantastic series overall. Are there any on how to sanitize the big hoses? Are they stored with sanitizer, or is is poured in an end before hook-up to the brewhouse or FV/bright?
Nathan Udell I have the same question, also, what kind of sanitizer does he use for this? Peracetic acid for everything?
We use boiling hot water ran through for 10 minutes
Hi, can you mash out with that system? If so, how would you raise the temperature at the end of the mash? Thanks and great vids, very informative.
Great video series jasper, very informative, keep em up!!!
One questions though, with only one pump how to you pump sparge water into MT while also pumping wort to BK?
Good question! The stacked mash tun is sitting high enough above the kettle fill volume to allow for gravity to fill kettle (No need for grant/pump), Cheers!
Why is the HLT on the bottom? Just for ease of adding grain at the top? Seems like it being on the top would allow gravity feeding the hot liquor.
The stacked brewhouse structure generally with Mash/lauter tun on top, with whirlpool tun or HLT at bottom. Compard with the common two vessel with separated HLT, this strcture need smaller footprint, that could help to save space, but need higher ceiling. For the 10bbl brewhouse, the MLT generally with motor (for grain rake) on top of the tank. Besides, the MLT need to installed with grist silo or hydrator etc, these things would be not easy if with MLT at bottom.
Nice system. If you don't mind me asking how much did the whole set-up cost?
Hi Jaime, This is Cody from Grainbrew_Tiantai in China. We are manufacture specially for beer brewing system and we can design and give reasonable advice to our customers.
For any doubts or questions, please feel free to let me know. We'd love to offer our full support to your brewery project.
E-mail: grainbrew@cnbrewery.com www.grainbrew.com
great video Jasper.
what are the pros and cons to having a stacked mash/hot liquor tun verses a separate hot liquor tank? which do you prefer? I've never used a stacked.
Thanks!
The major pro of stacked MT/HLT are the smaller footprint they take up. (More room for tables in a pub). Other pros are, The heat from the HLT actually preheats the MT above it. Also it is in close proximity of the MT, so losing heat from hoses during strike temp in minimal.
Pros of a separate HLT, Major, is it can hold a larger volume. This makes multiple batches in a day easier. It is independent of Brewhouse, if BH needs to be turned off youll still have HL. It can be installed in a different room of the brewery.
They're both awesome, I guess I prefer a stacked setup simply because I enjoy Pub brewing and I choose not to be a production brewer. However this is not a concrete rule (staked can be used for production and separate can be used for pubs). Cheers!
Hi there, great video, can I just ask you, who makes this equipment, is it just one company that comes in and set up everything I see on your video or is it more than one?, and what would be the approximate investment in a 10bbl plant like this, thanks.
Thanks. This is a Premier Stainless brewhouse. There are companies that will come design and set up breweries. Personally I have been upgrading parts since I've opened and doing everything myself. Total cost of plant is hard to say because it combines commercial real estate. I would recommend contacting Premier, they can give you a quote and set you up with any total all in one package you would be interested in. Hope this helps, Cheers
Thanks buddy, much oblige.
Great channel Jasper! I've got some questions for youu: what's the total surface area of your brewery? how many FVs and BBT do you have? Are those unitanks to use also to carbonate beer? Thanks!
For a turnkey 10bbl system included grain miller, two vessel brewhouse unit, 4x10bbl fermenters, the glycol system (both of GWT and chillers), control unit and CIP cart. It would need at least 70~80M2. Absolutly if you plan to have more fermenters, brite tanks or plan to do bottling or kegging etc, more space should be on site. We have ever desgined different types of brewery layout according to our customers' location, if you need, we can share some with you as reference.
For the fermenters, some brewers prefer to have carbonation and leveling glass, as it could help to have a better beer brewing experience. But some brewers do not like to have these devices considering of a higher sanitary level. You know the less dead corner, the better for fermenters. Welcome to email me if you prefer a further discussion :) trade@cnbrewery.com
After you mix grains and water in the mash tun, do I have to open the stiring function at all time? would that increase the efficiency and would that cause me hard to withdraw the wort after the process if I keep stiring it at all time?
Generally speaking, there is no specific rules for stiring during mashing. But mostly of the brewers prefer to keep stiring during feeding and during temperature raising process. When you start counting, it is available to keep the agitator still, you know the stiring may increase the content of NHF that would cause difficulty in the next lautering process. But there are a few of brewers in Europe especially in germany prefer to keep stiring since feeding until the sparging finished, absolutely the rotating speed must be slow enough. Please feel free to contact us if you prefer a further discuss: trade@cnbrewery.com
This is so Helpful!!!! I'm just getting into an brewer apprenticeship and we use a 5bbl system just like this by Century. Who makes this system? Very good stuff so helpful!
Never mind I saw the Premiere logo. Thanks.
Thanks man! Congrats on the apprenticeship, that's awesome, Cheers!
awesome! For your brew kettle, which is direct fire, what kind of gas do you use, natural, propane ? thanks
Natural gas
Hi! Do you use same size fittings for all or most connections? What size are they?
Great video, thank you. How long does your brew day take? Or you able to do two batches in a day?
Thanks for watching! A batch takes around 6hrs. However with prep and final cleaning, brewdays are around 9hrs long. It is possible to do 2 batches/day but for one person it would be a lot of work on this brewhouse. Hot water usage needs to be thought about more as well. Cheers!
Hello Jasper! I there software to calculate my grain,hope and yeast order?
Is the water in your cold water storage tank chilled since it also go to the heat exchanger
Yes, I'll cool it to 40F before using it for HX, Cheers!
how much does something like that cost roughly
I have a question: how do you get to the run off temp after you are done mashing?
The mash tun temp sensor will show how 170F sparge water is moving through the bed. The Kettle temp sensor will show the temp of the collected wort. Also a sample valve on the mash tun drain can be used to collect a sample and check temp. Cheers!
Hey! I probably did not explain myself. When saccharification is completed do you start filtration immediately? Or do you rise up the temp somehow before starting with the filtration?
I start wort separation (filtration) right away. Sparge water added later during wort separation heats up the mash.
Thank you!
Bro, can we meet up?
Very nice video. Nice brew haus, however you say "wart" Wart is a growth on your skin. Wort (Pronounced wert, by people who care about industry lingo) is the sweet hot liquor that is derived from the mashing process. Lets clean it up bro, and teach people correctly!
WAY WAY too many commercials/ads thorough your video.... otherwise quite informative