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Has anyone tried out a brew on premises place?

Was thinking of giving bru 4 u at wacol a go sometime.

I get most of my goods from a brew on site place

We help each other out on the knowledge base but I think I can brew a better beer

Dogger

hi all,

how exactly do these places work ?

you pay and they brew it for you or you just have the use of their gear ?

i hear they're fairly common over west.

yardglass

Yardglass,

there's a few in Perth, the basic idea is you go in and select the brew you want to make. They give you ingredients, you mix etc and put in frementer, they then store at controlled temp etc. You go back 10 - 14 days later, take you bottles and bottles the brew, it's already carbonated and chilled by them so it's ready to drink! You get about 120 stubbies to a brew, only problem is they recommend you keep them all in fridge! That's a heap of brew to keep chilled!

Grab

grabman wrote:Yardglass,

You go back 10 - 14 days later, take you bottles and bottles the brew, it's already carbonated and chilled by them so it's ready to drink!
Grab

cheers Grabman,

am i missing something with the carbonation thing?..
please excuse if i'm being a pond life, but how do you bottle carbonated beer?


yardglass

I've not done it but It would be some sort of counter pressure filler, similar to devices that breweries use to fill their bottles.

Grab

all though I could be wrong! anyone got a better idea

no idea how they actually do it but you have to cap your own bottles so it'd lose its pressure?

i made a booking for this saturday, ill let you all know how it goes

on thinking about it I think that one of the reasons you need to keep the beer chilled is due to the artificial carbonation. If the beer is allowed to get warm then the gas will come out of solution and result in excess pressure in headspace maybe leading to explosions. If gas is in solution a small amount will leach into headspace to help maintain bottle pressure and right carbonation levels!

Grab,

Its a counter pressure filler.

There is a design for one in one of those books in the book list thread, "Building beer stuff from nothing" by McGyver

Only kidding about the name, I can't remember it off the top of my head

The way it works is you seal of the bottle, pressurize it so it is slightly less than the keg pressure, open the valve and let it fill up. Pressure is released through a blow off type system. Break the seal and cap

Dogger

hey wouldn't surprise me if McGyver haf built one, he built everything else known to man,

and all from fencing wire, fishing line and a bit of bubble gum!!