Guinea Muddler - and the new brewshed

Since moving house back in April I've not been able to brew - the shed that came with the new house was FULL of old stuff and a billion large spiders....

Over the summer I've been able to gradually get the shed into a reasonable state so that I could start to fit it out to be my new brewshed.

I still had loads to do, but I also had annual leave to use up before year-end, so I took 2 days off and set to.

I'll not bore you with the list of jobs, but I'm particularly happy with the steel framed shelf I welded up to support the big 50 Litre HLT

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I sorted all the wiring in the shed a while back, but the last thing needed was an extractor fan - although I then rejigged the layout a bit and the fan position isn't perfect. Oh well.

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With the final bits sorted and everything cleaned up, that was a day and half gone, so the last half day was used to brew

And there we have 42 litres of lovely stout in the fermenter

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The ferment is being controlled by a brewpi (self build of course) and this morning was rather busy sorting out the device configuration which I had thought was sorted, but the heater wasn't switching on... however we seem to be sorted now.... fingers crossed!

Lovely job, always good to see an old facility come back into use - well done BY!

Looks good. I'm very jealous of your brewshed. It looks great!

Looks amazeing I must get my shed stuff together I brew in the kitchen and it gets pretty humid, smells great as far as Im concerned but others dont always agree.

Thanks Gents

When I started brewing I used the utility room since it was handy, and right at the back door. I did however have to clean the walls every time with all the condensation running down them....

When I moved out of there I tried brewing in the kitchen of the new house, but too much condensation- not happy with it.

I then converted the shed into a brewshed and was much happier with that arrangement as I could easily fit extractor fan(s) and no longer needed to worry so much about condensation

Having a brewshed IS a luxury though - it really only has the one function - but it means being able to leave the brewing kit in place, so starting a brew is that much quicker

This new brewshed is that little bit bigger than my last one - and that means I have space for a little freezer so store my hops, and a tall fridge that is my fermenting 'box', heating and cooling controlled by the brew-pi, and I even have space to store all my grain, empty bottles etc It's brilliant!

Mind you, the wife does moan that I've taken over the shed.... and the garage (motorbikes, work bench, oh, and fridge for beer, and a converted freezer that is now a cornie cooler) - she may have a point

Looks a fine set up there BY, not jealous one bit .
I need to sort my brewing area out which is in my garage I keep saying I'm going to do it but something always get in the way.