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Home Photo Galleries Equipment Galleries Jason Meyer • Victoria, British Columbia

This brewery was designed to brew large batches in a 500-square-foot apartment. The system is electrically heated and uses the power supply normally attached to the kitchen stove. It produces 20 gallons of finished beer per brew. The kettle and hot liquor tank are each constructed from two Sanke kegs welded end-to-end. The roller mill is made from custom-machined rollers made from schedule 80 mild steel pipe, and is driven by an old clothes-dryer motor. A magnetically coupled centrifugal pump, helical wort chiller and oxygen injection take care of wort transfer and cooling-in.

This brewery was designed to brew large batches in a 500-square-foot apartment. The system is electrically heated and uses the power supply normally attached to the kitchen stove. It produces 20 gallons of finished beer per brew. The kettle and hot liquor tank are each constructed from two Sanke kegs welded end-to-end. The roller mill is made from custom-machined rollers made from schedule 80 mild steel pipe, and is driven by an old clothes-dryer motor. A magnetically coupled centrifugal pump, helical wort chiller and oxygen injection take care of wort transfer and cooling-in.

Brewery Setup
<p>The control panel has infinite heat switches from a kitchen stove to regulate current to the flash immersion heating elements in the kettle and hot liquor tanks. All of this plugs into the 210 volt outlet normally used for the kitchen stove.</p>

The Control Panel
The fermentation tank is custom fabricated to fit inside a chest freezer, which is used to control fermentation temperature and “crash cool” post fermentation. A simple thermostat reads the temperature of the tank and cycles the freezer accordingly. This tank is large enough to accommodate the product of two brewing sessions, so generally two brews are used to fill the fermenter, producing a total of 40 gallons of finished beer per fermentation.

Fermentation Tank
The mash tun is made from a 30 gallon cooler, with the tried-and-true copper manifold design for lautering.

The Mash Tun
<p>This photo of the kettle clearly shows the installation of the two 2500 watt heating elements, as well as a perforated plate false bottom for hop and trub removal.</p>

Kettle
Here is the system at work in the tiny kitchen for which it was designed. It has moved to a more spacious home since then!

System at Work


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