Forum search & shortcuts

[Closed] I built a brewery

yourguitarhero · 2019-04-15T20:39:11Z

Last Autumn I completed an MSc in Brewing and Distilling. I thought I would celebrate by building a brewery. Exhibit A: The old washhouse in my girlfriend's garden Some issues: Roof not the best This was it "cleaned out": The old wash basin: Kind of tempted to turn that into a direct fired still.... My dad and I got to work. First things first. That roof. Off: New joists: We also had to reinforce a lot of the rotten main ones. Interestingly, the old roof wasn't actually attached to the building but was just resting on it. We fixed that. Some new, more modern roof panels: Slight aside. Had to buy, make a base and erect a new shed for all my girlfriend's stuff: Some more issues. No electricity. Being dug into a hill side, it was very damp. Cue installation of a ring main, and seven (7!) coats of latex damp proofing paint: Next, a £60 kitchen off of Gumtree and a sink/ Luckily it did have a water supply and drain. A mill to crush the grains. The grist falls down into the cupboard below (there is normally a hopper on top): Evaporate (from boiling the wort) extraction system consisting of a bathroom fan, tumble dryer tubing and the lid from a garden waste burner: Put an outside light in as well as some weatherproof sockets out the back as a wee thank you to the GF: 40A electric supply: Washy-hands: Safety first: Storage: The library: The yeast zone: Some nice fermenters: Anti-winter technology: Fully chilled supply chain: An incubator for growing up microflora cultures: Ageing some old hops for making a lambic: Got my hands on some whisky barrels for maturation: Had a visitor: Complete and ready to brew: And the end result:

Page 2 / 2 Prev

singletrackmind

Posts: 7283

Full Member

HMRC . Licence to produce alcohol, might still run a debenture scheme but may not apply to low volume outputs
Trading Standards . You need a spent grains template and record of where it goes
EHO. registered Food Production building . Haccp is helpfull.
Local council for change of use , business rates ,
VAT Man , maybe probably not worth as you inputs are mostly vat free
Insurance . NFU seem popular.

Posted : 02/10/2019 8:40 pm

yourguitarhero

Posts: 5296

Free Member

Topic starter

Have done the initial registration with HMRC and local council, which seems to cover the registered food production building, spent grains etc - am doing a Haccp plan for it. Will have to do AWRS too

Posted : 03/10/2019 8:35 am

Page 2 / 2 Prev