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Welcome to Don’s Neighborhood Pub. There’s no Bud here, just the best homebrew!

Welcome to Don’s Neighborhood Pub. There’s no Bud here, just the best homebrew! I couldn’t have done it alone, though. I’ve got to thank Ron Thomas for the tile flooring and ideas for my brewery, Kevin Ladue for the stainless work on my oxygenator, Evan Mackie for the stainless kettle and grinder lids of my design, Saffrons Supply for the plumbing supplies and last but not least my beautiful wife Nancy, because you have to have an understanding wife to allow a designated brew shop in your home!

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Made from stainless steel, a small drum houses an oxygen stone. It is sealed with o-rings and uses 2-piece sanitary clamps to connect leading and trailing 3⁄8” stainless tubing. I found that while transferring wort, dialing in 1⁄2 pound of oxygen keeps foam manageable with quick ferment.

Oxygenation Station
The core of the grinding stand is my Glatt grinder. An eight-to-one pulley reduction keeps it spinning at around 200 rpm. I built the framework from scrap angle iron and bolted it together like an erector set, adding 3⁄4” plywood for the bases. The hopper, actually an inverted stainless exhaust stack found at a salvage yard, holds over 30 pounds of grain. I soldered the ball valve on so I could regulate the flow.

Grain Grinder
I added drama to filling my hot liquor tank by installing a lazer blue light to the flow. It doesn’t make the beer taste better, but impresses the hell out of my brew buddies.

Lazer Blue Water
The 1⁄2” copper pipe end of my counterflow chiller returns to the sink to fill either a bucket for Powdered Brewery Wash or sanitizer. Water boiled in PBW is gravity-fed from the brew kettle through the chiller, followed by Iodophor or Star San sanitizer. To sanitize before use, I made what looks like a new car fuel pump cartridge. I drop an aquarium pump in a tall tubular container (I think it had Cheerios in it) with precut clear tubing. It slips into the center of the chiller perfectly, holding it securely. I circulate for 30 minutes before hooking my beer lines to it. I can submerge the entire container in my sink of sanitizer to get the right proportions.

Brewery Chiller
Another idea from the microbrewery I worked at was having my own keg washer. For the bigger cleaning jobs, I fabricated this table with locking wheels and a power head made of 1⁄2” copper tubing. One hacksaw cut made at about a 45-degree angle makes city water pressure work really well! The added spray nozzle on the hose shoots externally on a keg or bucket. The water is directed away, with an automotive drip pan. This setup makes cleaning almost fun.

Keg Washer


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