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[BlKtRe]

Is anyone part of a club that has a brewery that the club owns? We are looking at 55g SS barrels and building off of those. Our idea is to have it mobile so the brewery would be built on a trailer. That way it would be simple to take it to various club brew locations. I'm just wondering what others do for their club breweries. Types of vessels, burners etc.....Does anyone have sources for SS vessels?

 

Bubba's Barrels has some decent stuff. Kinda pricey on their plug and play vessels. We would most likely build our own fittings into the vessels ourselves to save money. 

 

https://www.bubbasbarrels.com/

[ChicagoWaterGuy]

This local club runs a private BOP. Not what you are looking for but a cool concept. Great for city dwellers with no room for gear or space for temp controlled fermentation.

 

https://www.chaosbre...about/brewhouse

[ChicagoWaterGuy]

Is anyone part of a club that has a brewery that the club owns? We are looking at 55g SS barrels and building off of those. Our idea is to have it mobile so the brewery would be built on a trailer. That way it would be simple to take it to various club brew locations. I'm just wondering what others do for their club breweries. Types of vessels, burners etc.....Does anyone have sources for SS vessels?

 

Bubba's Barrels has some decent stuff. Kinda pricey on their plug and play vessels. We would most likely build our own fittings into the vessels ourselves to save money. 

 

https://www.bubbasbarrels.com/

If you DIY, $220 for a 55 gallon stainless barrel seems like a fair price depending on shipping.

[BlKtRe]

If you DIY, $220 for a 55 gallon stainless barrel seems like a fair price depending on shipping.

 

We thought so too. We could have them shipped to a commercial dock which would save money vs to a residential address. 

 

We might have a line locally but Im just not sure if that will pan out or not. 

 

The CHAOS club looks pretty interesting and a great idea. Our idea tho would be to do larger batches. All everyone would have to do is pop in money for ingredients and bring their own fermenter. Make it portable on the trailer so all that would need to be done is to set the vessels on the burners (which would be mounted on the trailer) and go. We have various events during the year at different venues so portability would be nice.

 

Also, We would be open to a different design of vessel besides the upright barrel shape. 

[SchwanzBrewer]

I tried to get something like that started. Not enough interest from the rest of the club.

[positiveContact]

sounds interesting but anything that gets this involved you have to have one person in charge.  one person who actually owns the thing and can call the shots.  otherwise I see it not working out well.

[SchwanzBrewer]

sounds interesting but anything that gets this involved you have to have one person in charge.  one person who actually owns the thing and can call the shots.  otherwise I see it not working out well.

 

Not true. My club organized as a corp and anything bought with club money is club property. Storage is the only real issue. My goal, which was lofty, was to grow the club so we could afford to buy a small house or a warehouse property out in the sticks to call a club house, then build a club brewery there. Kind of like an elks lodge for brewers.

[positiveContact]

Not true. My club organized as a corp and anything bought with club money is club property. Storage is the only real issue. My goal, which was lofty, was to grow the club so we could afford to buy a small house or a warehouse property out in the sticks to call a club house, then build a club brewery there. Kind of like an elks lodge for brewers.

 

I think there is a reason your club didn't do what is being suggested in this thread.  no one wants to commit that much to something they can't control.  I know I wouldn't. 

[ChicagoWaterGuy]

sounds interesting but anything that gets this involved you have to have one person in charge.  one person who actually owns the thing and can call the shots.  otherwise I see it not working out well.

 

Not true. My club organized as a corp and anything bought with club money is club property. Storage is the only real issue. My goal, which was lofty, was to grow the club so we could afford to buy a small house or a warehouse property out in the sticks to call a club house, then build a club brewery there. Kind of like an elks lodge for brewers.

I agree with you both in part. Our club is a recognized non-profit and we own a bunch of brew/draft equipment. There's no problem with that but getting anything done by committee sucks. One person has to take the lead otherwise nothing gets done. And the biggest complainers are the ones that do the least.

[SchwanzBrewer]

I think there is a reason your club didn't do what is being suggested in this thread.  no one wants to commit that much to something they can't control.  I know I wouldn't. 

 

Just not enough interest. A few of us were interested in doing it. The club as a whole doesn't have enough total participation to make it work. If we got with the other 2 big clubs and could agree on a central location it would work, but we're spread out quite a bit.

 

If your club has the funds to buy some nice equipment and maintain it, then really storage is the biggest problem. Make some rules for the equipment and don't deviate. If it's for general use then scheduling is an issue but its not something you can't overcome. 1 bbl doesn't need that much space, but you could spend $15k to make a nice little brewery.

[BlKtRe]

Not true. My club organized as a corp and anything bought with club money is club property. Storage is the only real issue. My goal, which was lofty, was to grow the club so we could afford to buy a small house or a warehouse property out in the sticks to call a club house, then build a club brewery there. Kind of like an elks lodge for brewers.

 

We fill out a 501c3 every year. We are a very organized club that already owns a covered trailer packed full of equipment. I was the sole Quartermaster in charge of this equipment and loaning it out. It has since been formed into a committee and the duties spread between a few people because it became to much work for one person. Now this is easier on me plus a better service for members. So knowing this I agree with you that these issues Evil has pointed out are things we worked out many years ago. Its a non issue. 

[positiveContact]

I've never been a team player I guess

[BlKtRe]

I've never been a team player I guess

Naaa, just we have crossed that hurdle already in my club.

[HVB]

Not true. My club organized as a corp and anything bought with club money is club property. Storage is the only real issue. My goal, which was lofty, was to grow the club so we could afford to buy a small house or a warehouse property out in the sticks to call a club house, then build a club brewery there. Kind of like an elks lodge for brewers.

When I was going to club meetings monthly I had a similar idea.  There was an old mill building across the street that we could have rented space in cheap, I thought it would have been cool to set up a club brewery in there.  the club and I took different directions but at least a real brewery has decided to open in the space.

 

BlKtRe - if you do build something post here as I would like to see the construction pictures.