Nano-Brewery Startup Tips with John Blichmann - BeerSmith Podcast

John Blichmann, President of Blichmann Engineering joins me this week to discuss starting a nano-brewery including equipment options as well as many of the business considerations that come into play with starting a beer brewery on a shoestring. Show notes here: - beersmith.com/b...

[@deckerhand12]

Just doing the math for my state between equipment insurance building licensing permits copyright fees I think you’ll be upwards of probably 1,000,000+ and if you want to go from nanoBrewery do you want up your game to brewpub then you’ll looking more money.

[@ZwienerZ]

I wish he would have elaborated more on the number of fermenters. I could imagine only brewing on a 1BBL system, and brewing everyday, you would need at least a dozen fermenters.

[@kadebeem9685]

He did. They mentioned having larger 7bbl conicals to double batch beers. Otherwise, yes, you would need several fermenters.

[@bromeister4925]

It takes 2 weeks to ferment and you want to brew each day of the week. So you brew 9 times after that first fermenter before being able to empty it. 10 Fermenters will do for standard 2 weeks beers. More can help if you like strong and longer to ferment beers

[@mikedejonge3110]

depends on how many times you'd like to brew each week OR how much volume you want to sell weekly. brew 3 times a week with Ales (14 days cycles) you'd need 6 fermenters to keep pace. and so on

[@AndrewduToit]

Just a shame we cant get those kettles outside the USA.

[@sendoprey]

You can get video editing software to remove or reduce the background noise.

[@AdamKeele]

Adobe Audition is a great program for just such a thing.

[@albecker5287]

A "beer" barrel is 31 gallons. 31 gallons equals 117 liters

[@griffindata89]

for perspective in Ontario Canada a 5bbl system will cost you around 150k

[@seanbailey317]

Griffin Data 150k for a 5 bbl system seems wayyy over priced imo.

[@craiggambetta694]

Americans and their imperial system, speak metric, i'm sick of throwing figures into an online volume converter... i am laughing while i am typing this, but it is frustrating

[@keithcallen2844]

Ya'know ya'know ya'know
FFS! Think before you open your mouth!