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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2024
- It's been nearly a year in the making but our home brewery and studio is now finished! In a video spanning months, follow us as we build the ultimate homebrewery and move in and on to the next phase of the Craft Beer Channel!
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Hey beer geeks! What do you think of the Brudio? In related news we need a name for the brewery itself, who knows maybe one day we'll make a commercial beer. Any thoughts?
I thought it was Brewdio? But all names aside, I really like it! Hoping for lots of interesting homebrews coming out of those 2,2 x 2,8 meters.
Cheers!!
Great vid place looks solid
Name for it:Crispy Boys brewshed
Impressive use of space, and the tile panels are a lovely touch - I'm assuming that you'll use a dehumidifier to remove the water vapor created during the boil phase? Cheers!
@@stephenlaw1782 Yeah maybe Crispy Bois & Co, then it also abbreviates to CBC
Brewshed McBoatFace
Trying to translate British is a challenge here across the pond. So a biscuit is a cookie, a crisp is a potato chip, a boot is a trunk and apparently a "garden" is a small overgrown field full of weeds that if you mowed it, you'd probably find a 1975 Plymouth sitting on cinder blocks...so I'll add "garden" to my translated list. Thanks friend...I mean, um, mate?
Don't for get loft and cellar.
Woooowwwww! Russian River🍻 can't wait, and the Brewdio looks good. Great job.
What a cool concept! In the past couple of months, my friends and I have been brewing and making videos together. It really takes us back to our skateboarding days. Hopefully, we keep the trend and can build our own home brewery.
I thoroughly enjoy this channel and your vids. As DIY enthusiast, this is by far my favourite. Seeing you take on a project like this and think through all the steps, all while having a new house and new baby, I'm impressed. I've got a 3 month old and the same commitment to home brewing as you do so I can relate. Well done boys!
This looks amazing! Currently brewing in an apartment where as you said i have to unbox all my equipment set it back up before I can get brewing and then take it all down again. I Can’t wait to build a place such as this to cut down my brew days and brew more often!
What a great studio! I've been having the exact same dreams of Studio / Pub / Brew Space, think at one point I was even considering adding another /gym into it as well so glad to see something like this is possible!
Wooo! congrats future Jonny! (and can't wait to see the madness you make in the brudio)
I recommend you seal your grains in plastic boxes in case of mice.
Or employ a cat?
Started home brewing. Wow. It’s very intensive. But really enjoying it. Cheers guys.
I've been carrying my brewery in and out of garage and basement and have been eyeing our 3.5*4m shed... Have to insulate it and convince my wife that that is great idea 😂
The Brewdio is a testimony to your growth and the growth of the channel. Great stuff!
Thanks so much!
Really enjoyed this. Have JUST started to get into Homebrewing. Love the set up guys. Looking forward to the West coast.
Wow amazing! I'd love to have a setup like this. I reckon you must experiment, get people trying your beer, and scale up!
Looking good! Congrats with the spanking new brewery/studio!
That's pretty nifty of a Brewshed. Have fun with Vinnie and crew!
The Brewdio is looking good! I'd be incredibly proud of that.
Looking forward to many more adventures coming out of there throughout 2022.
Cheers Neil, so long as it remains upright and waterproof there will be LOTS of content coming out!
What a great brewing space! Very efficient use of space!
Love how you put on an Orange sweater to draw the garden plan, then take it off, then put it back on again, then take it off, then out it back on again :)
Haha... the magic of telly/recording the drawings later
I think you've done a great job, nicely done with the brewdio!
Impressive. Still amazed you got all that in there...where you can actually use it! Bravo!
Excellent, nothing more satisfying than building your own kit. A little concerned that I didn't see any form of heating but I'm sure you have worked that out.
What a great space! I'm inspired...
Fantastic vid. Imagine you’ll be getting a lot of joy and productivity out of that construction for a long time
Congrats, looking awesome.🍻☺️cheers!
Unlike the very common lockdown garden pub videos, theres no pilfered parasol for outside seating area here. Bravo 👏🏻
Haha no pub was harmed in the making of this brewery.
rechecking on the setup as going to buy a g30 ... again thanks guys! (awesome brodio!)
Superb video. I have tried getting my wife on board with a brewshed/pub. I’ve had no luck whatsoever. So I will watch with envy!
I'm enjoying this video halfway through my first brew on my grainfather G40. New to homebrewing but worked in a microbrewery a couple of years ago. So happy to be back brewing! The brudio looks fantastic!
Awesome what are you brewing?
An oatmeal stout, a personal favourite style that I don't see often enough in the pubs here in Cumbria!
This is a dream, very excited for you to have a space like this! Someday....
Working my way through the podcast from episode 1. Missing the home brew episodes guys! i think the last one was over a year ago??? Take me back to covid days and seeing you guys freak out about homebrew cask ale. anywhoo when I catch up to current day podcast I hope you read this out. If you do sup future me. Loven Beer.
So cool!!!!
Awesome watching the Brudio come together, and of course, it had to be Russian River. 🙌
Love your channel and can’t wait to see the collaboration with Russian River! I first saw your videos when you went to Russian River.
I have your beer school book. Loved it.
Thanks so much!
Looks Awesome 👍😎 Tucson Arizona Desert 🏜️. Salute 🙌
Great video Johnny, the music is so vibey!
As always it is the beautiful work of Otis McDonald - an amazing producer!
Great video, Jonny and a commercial beer sounds like a great idea. I am super jealous. In fact, I'm super jealous of anyone who has a shed or garage to brew in and can leave their equipment permanently set up. I have a flat and whilst it is on a Scottish island and I have a spectacular sea view, I have to brew in my kitchen and have empty bottles secreted all over my flat ready for the next brew. I appreciate that you've probably got this year's schedule sorted but I'd be really interested in a video which looks at other home brewers' set ups, particularly those where they are challenged for space. On a separate note, at the Christmas party, you mentioned how good Five Points' Green Hop is. I just had a case delivered this week (lovely Five Points deliver to the Scottish islands!) and it is excellent!
Nice idea! For those with a small space, the All in One systems are a must, but I bet there are some other great tips out there for us to find.
Awesome build. I have a workshop in my garden where I want to add a brewery section in, this video is great inspiration for that build starting in the spring (I hope).
What did you do about water? Did you make any type of pipes from the house or are you just taking water from the house and into the brewery?
And are you taking all the equipment inside the house to clean it?
Great video. What added extras did you buy from Dunster house i.e what thickness walls, insulation ect. Thanks
Delicious
Thats the plan for our garage once I sort the house out, ill be fitting a floor drain and some other bits as well though.
Im assuming when you keg you pressure transfer? Ive had to stick my conicals up high at the moment and run some tube from the conical tap into the keg. Its a bit of a pain having to keep lifting the fermenters up and down every time I brew and keg a batch though
I do. In some ways I wish I'd elevated the conicals for ease of access but they work where they are and I was worried having them high would make the space feel too small.
Great video, congratulations for completing the project. This is the sort of video I needed as I've been planning a similar space for a while now. Hoping I can start building by the end of the year (funds permitting).
We managed to just about stay in our budget of £7k! It can be done!
@@TheCraftBeerChannel Hoping I can do the building for around that sort of number too. I made a note of the place you used to supply the shed, so I'll be having a good look there. Pretty sure I'll get some sort of log cabin type of building.
Great project Jonny!
I'm about to move house and looking to put an outbuilding up to double up as a brewery and office space for two.
I saw the company you bought the building from (been looking at them myself) but which one did you go for?
Cheers boys from across the pond!
Love the vid per usual. Hit me up next time your stateside
I had to pause and rewind several times. Your gravity reading on the desk looked like a table lamp for a minute. It was the filming light; but what an idea. A test tube with an amber yellow epoxy with a hydrometer coming up the middle to a light socket and shade.
Haha, patent it NOW!
The amazing disappearing orange hoodie!
I couldn't quite figure out what was on the wall above the FV on the right. A heat exchanger?
I want one !!!
Hi CBC guys! Love your content, love your channel, love your insights!
Idk if you'll see this, but I had a random question about beer aging I figured I'd ask my favourite beer-related content creators.
I've gotten my hands on a 17% pilsner from eastern Canada, supposedly the strongest lager in North America, and I was wondering if you had any insights regarding bottle-aging lagers, especially lagers of that strength! From the looks of the bottom of the bottle, it is definitely chock-full of yeast too.
Great Brudio Jonny/Brad!! A suggestion - put wheels on the bottom of G40 platform - easy to wheel outside for sunny weather outdoor brews and for cleaning / rinsing the G40. Do the same for my G30 and it works well!
Good thought! Maybe it could work, but there is a big ridge at the double doors to get over.... so I'll also need a ramp
My 'dolly' has quite large 'industrial' wheels (8cm dia.) and can navigate rough garage floor and door sills. This or something similar may work for you?
Some came to this video for the brewhouse. I came for the funky music.
Mad props to our music maestro Otis McDonald!
Great vid, great content, congrats the brudio looks great. Highlights what can be accomplished with a relativly small space. I will be doing something similar in the next few weeks and hopefully will be be able to do something similar. Just one question, where do you clean your brew equipment, as i quite often find myself using our kitchen sink.
We use an outdoor tap with a foodsafe hose, and clean on the patio just outside. But also because of the tiling we can do a fair amount in the Brudio itself... just not the pressure wash bits.
Congratulations with the brewdio. Looking forward to lots of home brew content. Could you do a NEIPA with local uk or European hops. This would be more sustainable and cheaper for those of us on this side of the pond. Just did a NEIPA with mandarina Bavaria after you mentioned it on the podcast. Just cold crashing. By the way where are you cleaning and getting your water. Seems like you could do with at least an outside kitchen sink on the beer patio outside of the brewdio. Maybe a reverse osmosis setup somewhere.
Let us know how it pans out! We have lots of plans to brew with British hops this year, and to feature them more in general. The water comes from the outside tap via a food safe hose - I can clean well on the tiles and the patio, and use brew buckets as a sink
That turned out great! I'm very jealous! Don't want to invest so much time and money when I'm only renting out a place though (even if I had the space in the garden...) Could you give more details in the shed "kit" that you built please?
To be honest, I wouldn't really recommend the one I used, hence why I didn't dwell on it. Not because it's not up to scratch but because the company (Dunster House) were not the most efficient or helpful. Especially once they got my money. However, in general the key things to look for are decent insulation, quality windows, and a long warranty!
Great work! I wonder where do you clean your equipment and dispense the water? Did you consider building a DIY tiny CIP unit so that you won’t need to move the tanks around for cleaning? I would prefer to assign this space to brewing only and keep the studio indoors as you might need this cleaning area and a tiny bar maybe?
I don't need to move the kit to clean it. The Grainfather has a CIP system, and the conicals can easily be cleaned in place with the bottoms open and a jug underneath!
This video came at a perfect time! We're moving to Brighton and the wife has allowed me to have a proper brew space so I don't make a mess in the kitchen. Space will be an issue given size of gardens in Brighton! The big thing I get nervous about is connecting water and electricity to the outside brew space. Any guidance for someone with probably even worse DIY skills?
Erm... get someone else to do it! Was surprised by house reasonable the costs were and it is definitely worth getting a pro. Save money elsewhere by building from a kit, being super economical with space etc
The Brewdio looks great; you've given me a few ideas for when I move house in March. Just one question, how are you controlling waste water?
I'm collecting it in a bucket annoyingly. Can't plumb the studio in as then I'd need planning permission. So I collect it and put it in a butt for the garden.
How well isolated is it? Do you use a dehumidifier after brewing? I'm so afraid my pc and books would turn in a fungus mushroom farm.
Does the Brudio have a water supply? Lugging all that from the house must be a mission if not! Great video!
It comes via a foodsafe hose from the outside tap - works really well. Plumbing the building in would mean needing planning permission
About to buy a house, but it doesn't have any good place I can brew. This is definitely something for inspiration, thank you. What about pipework for drainage and tap water?`
I use the outdoor tap and collect waste water from cooling for watering the garden
So, what about plumbing? How do you fill your gear with water and wash it all out afterwards?
Cool project. I enjoyed watching it. Question (or observation): Inside the Brudio, it looks like there might be an overhead light that is isn't the same color as your vloging light panel and the light from the windows (5200K-5600K) and gives off a yellowish-green hue on the wall behind (between the center and picture on the right). Do you turn that off when doing a proper video or will you replace that bulb/light with something more tuned to daylight?
The lights are Smart LED so dimmable and can change colour on the RGB spectrum - but even so when I film CBC stuff I turn it off and rely on the light panel and natural light.
Wow this looks awesome, you must be really chuffed!? This is very similar to what I would like to aim for. May I ask what equipment you have there please?
Sure! We use Grainfather homebrewing equipment - specifically the G40, glycol chiller and two conical fermenters.
Congratulations! Looks really cool. I have a small garden shed I’m thinking of converting... what did you do about electricity and water? Any tips on cleaning?
Electrics were done by a professional, and water comes from the outside tap via a foodsafe hose. What kit are you brewing on? Then I can help with cleaning, but the patio out front is a must!
@@TheCraftBeerChannel Awesome! Thanks. Currently brewing on a G30.
Sorry if I missed it, but are the walls insulated?
It looks amazing! Question! Which was the first beer (celebration beer if you may) you drank inside the brudio once you were finished building it?
Also, idea on a name for the pub: Craft Beer Cabin/cottage. Then you can use the same acronym as your channel.
Great question! I can't remember the beer u had when I finished, but I do remember me and Brad drank a Pressure Drop Alligator Tugboat the first time we brewed in it together!
@@TheCraftBeerChannel Cool, cool, cool. Getting tipsy while brewing is underrated. My friend and I are going to brew a hazy boi with Galaxy and rakau this weekend.
My kingdom for a bottle (or 12) of Pliny!
Anything that can absorb steam in a brewery will do - so you may want to re-think the sound baffles. Humidity will also kill your electronics on a longer term basis, so i suggest you remove when not in use.
Blue mango chutney barrels for bulk grain, and labelled 10l ice-cream tubs for speciality grains.
Great job! Do you need a hot liquor tank, or is it just nice to have? I thought the Grainfather heats itself.
I need it for the sparge water and for cleaning the conicals - so vital, but a small part!
How will you get rid of steam during a boil? Is there a hud on the roof or would the door just remain open. Might be cold in winter if so 😅
Haha, at the moment it's just OPEN ALLLLLLL THE WINDOOOOOOOOOOWS
Great job. I may have missed something but how have you organised your water supply?
Outdoor tap from the house, via a food safe hose. If you plumb the building in you usually need planning permission
@@TheCraftBeerChannel Thanks. Thats exactly what i had thought of doing for my more modest brewery. Mine will be from an outside tap but hopefully will still suffice.
What wasn't clear from the video was how many beers it took to complete the project? Taking on a project like this there is no way that you wouldn't have had a beer or two at the end of the day of hardwork
Haha, didn't think it would be ethical to show building and drinking in the same video... but the answer is LOTS
That was one epic video! You should come join us on the hop addition podcast to talk all about your homebrewing journey ;)
Always happy to appear on beer pods! Drop us an email (go to the about us page)
What did you use for the ground foundation? Is it gravel?
We used a honeycomb plastic support, filled with gravel.
Quick question, what was the process for getting the place all 'leccied up?
Bit of a pain tbh! Luckily my dad could do the internals (fuse box, 5 double sockets) but had to get a pro to connect to the building as the cable had to go right through the house - cost around £800
This is brilliant. How did you convince your good lady to agree to it?
She was pushing me to do it! Sick of the kitchen and dining room being breweries.
Do you have a sink and running water in the studio? Surely, there must be some source of water.
Garden tap and a food safe hose. Though we use boxed/bottled water for anything needing softer water.
Did you put in a ground drain and water supply?
Sadly not - if you plumb the building in you need planning permission, so all the water is collected and put down the drain in the house. Water comes via a foodsafe hose from the house.
Have you got a water feed?
Outside tap and a food safe hose
Can I get a brewing set
And another thought....what happened to your handpull set-up? Will that find a special place in the Brudio??
great question and one I'm looking into. Might be a space for it on the desk, which is pretty long
I love the idea of a handpull but not sure I can down 10 or 20 litres in sufficiently short order to prevent the beer going off (great for parties!!) Or what do you say? Have you had more experience since the Five Points Best Bitter Cask video (which was great fun btw!). What about drawing from a corny keg as some do? Would love to see you re-visit this in a future video!
@@davidmallard8729 I made a rig to help with this. It's a stainless steel carbonation cap connected to a low pressure propane regulator connected to a gas disconnect all with regular gas line. Probably about 30USD in all. Plug the carbonation cap into your regular gas disconnect from your tank and then the other disconnect onto your corny keg. You get a consistent 1/2 psi of pressure delivered to the corny, just enough to break the vacuum and fill the headspace when pulling pints from my reconditioned Angram beer engine. Works great, just don't tell anyone from CAMRA. 🙂
@@jhoyle68 interesting idea. Do you prime / carbonate the beer in advance. Guess the 1/2 psi is not enough to provide carbonation?
@@davidmallard8729 Yes, I just prime the keg to get about 1.7 volumes.
on purely equipment what did you spend roughly(in pounds)? thanks
Well to be clear we didn't spend anything because Grainfather were our sponsor at the time, but this exact kit would set you back around £3,200. Since this video Grainfather have released lots more budget, but still excellent equipment so you could likely do similar for about £2,000
@@TheCraftBeerChannel wow thats not a bad setup for that type of investment. do you recommend or know anyone thats done the courses at brewlab or IBD?
is a keezer a keg?
It is a freezer for kegs with a tap in it
Could easily make the bench on a hinge. Liquor tank you could just buy a small pump to move water. For drainage, raise the floor and make the floor a removable grate, or vice versa, dig below and make the floor a grate/filter that would flow into the yard.
All great ideas but like I said, the wall can't take much strain! As for drainage I have no backyard drain and can't let all that malt, hop and trust just go into the eco system so needed to collect it.
Whats the IP of your outlets?
Anyone tell you that you look like the Brewing version of Kevin McCloud? Is he yer da?
If Vinnie rocks up at Jonny's house I will lose my shit
Haha, sadly not! It's a (long) fascinating Zoom call instead!
I need a micro brewery restaurant,
Can you help me out regarding machines, suppliers,master brewer, raw materials suppliers
Building it on a concrete pad would stop the floor from rotting out within a year or two particularly as there is no guttering. Just my experience.
The base is actually pretty good for this - 4 inches of honeycomb plastic, filled in with gravel. So drainage is excellent, and there is a weed barrier beneath that. It should last 10 years or more.
@@TheCraftBeerChannel Nice. Didn't see the plastic base under the gravel.
@@gregorythomson9347 That's my bad! Totally forgot to film that process... had a lot on my mind. Getting it flat was NOT easy.
Did I see that correctly? Russian River.
Yes. Yes you did.
Use stuff
You asked me to show you that I was the first to say "brewdio"! Look at my reply on this video: ua-cam.com/video/5n7JDRKgCOA/v-deo.html. Love you guys!
CBC is not a well respected name in Canada.
Ha! Well hey, it aint where we're from either.
Thats not much larger than my toilet.
This is a very strange comparison. But I'm happy for you.
your gonna need to google damp and mold coz you will be getting plenty of it, sorry to sound negative i love your channel but you have done this all wrong, you should have shouted out to your followers subscribers they would have come and sorted this out for you for free i bet, i know if i lived close to you id have come help you out for nowt
What makes you say we'll be getting damp and mold?
As a German, I appreciate how you planned the build. If you were American you would have started building in the morning and by the afternoon you realize all your money is spent and the project will never be finished. Because of this, you are absolutely broke and will lose everything you own in two weeks. Now you blame the Democrats for the mess and pray to God for a check that will save you.
I think you are mistaken. As an American, this garden brewery would have likely been 50 square meters, have double vanity sinks for some reason, require 5k watts of both heating and air conditioning, and somehow incorporated an eight cylinder petrol engine. (But it would be the democrats fault that it's not ten cylinders)
I LOVE these comments.
What a cool concept! In the past couple of months, my friends and I have been brewing and making videos together. It really takes us back to our skateboarding days. Hopefully, we keep the trend and can build our own home brewery.
This looks amazing! Currently brewing in an apartment where as you said i have to unbox all my equipment set it back up before I can get brewing and then take it all down again. I Can’t wait to build a place such as this to cut down my brew days and brew more often!
It is a game changer!
Wooo! congrats future Jonny! (and can't wait to see the madness you make in the brudio)