Beer Brewing Magazine
There are a lot of little and not so little things to do
before your brewery is ready to produce beer.
Everything from installing the
boiler to sweeping the floors needs to get done. For example, I spent last week
framing out the walls for the mill room and gluing parts together for the
glycol system piping. This week I will be installing the flex auger from the
mill room to the grist case over the mash tun. The list of stuff to do is
seemingly endless.
A handful of people have stopped by the brewery for a visit,
(even though they know we’re not brewing just yet) and some of them seemed surprised
to see me covered in dirt and sweat, holding a hammer or pushing a broom. (Or
perhaps I was far dirtier and smellier than I realized.) I think they have this
vision that opening or running a brewery is just a matter of having the money
and telling other folks what to do.
I suppose a brewery can be built and run in more of a
hands-off way, but I doubt that is the best way to do it. Sure, I understand
that not everyone has the skills needed to do every task in a brewery and it is
important to balance the length of time it takes to do things yourself versus
the cost of lost opportunity to sell your beer. It is certainly important to
bring in the professionals where logical, so the job gets done right and it
gets done as quickly as possible. However, I also believe it is important to be
involved in the process and get your hands dirty at every opportunity.
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