Eric's basement brewery/cooler/etc. build

foomench · Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 9:54 pm Post subject:

Bar cabinets installed today. The top cabinets have two taller cabinets on the sides and a shorter two door cabinet in the middle to accommodate five beer faucets in the middle there above the drip tray. I still need to install lights (you may notice some of the wires), and we're thinking about backsplash ideas, with stamped copper in the lead.

**kal** · Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 12:17 am Post subject:

Nice! I love the grain/look of the wood of the cabinetry. Very nice indeed.

That's one mightly long drip tray... How many taps will you have? It looks long enoughto serve 10-12 taps!

Kal

foomench · Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 6:06 pm Post subject:

Drip tray is 36" long for 5 taps with 6" spacing, and 6" on the ends. That's more space between them than you would typically see at a bar, but this isn't a commercial bar.

The cabinets are all bamboo. (Well, the bottom one has black melamine on the inside.)

Kevin59 · Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 7:28 pm Post subject:

Very nice looking!
Mug

Tim L · Joined: 14 Jun 2012 Posts: 15

Stamped copper sounds great! Great looking build.

snowtiger87 · Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 7:20 pm Post subject: Invite

You will have to invite me up for a look when you finish. I am in Thornton, CO.

foomench · Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 9:21 pm Post subject:

Brewery has a sink now:

And the cooler drywall has been completely mudded and the floor sealed and insulated:

I'm thinking about removing that painter's tape and using foil tape. We're going to put a floating floor of cork planks over that R-max board.

Update: Went home last night to find the contractor had removed the painter's tape and sealed all the seams with foil tape, and sealed floor-wall seams as well.

foomench · Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 10:37 pm Post subject: Re: Invite

foomench · Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2013 7:09 pm Post subject:

Hood is installed, but still is covered in protective film. An HVAC guy fabbed the cover of the 8" exhaust pipe on the top out of a piece of scrap stainless I had, so it still needs to be cleaned as well.

And I figured out that an Ikea 36" cabinet would be just big enough to hold the four bins of grain I use to store base malts that I purchase by the sack.

foomench · Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 3:14 pm Post subject:

Chiller unit and cooler door installed. I'll probably clean up the chiller a little bit and see if I can fix the bent fins, but that will all be covered by a grill that is currently black. I'm going to get spray paint mixed to match the wall color and paint the grill with that. Door is an exterior house door, but I still might add an extra layer of insulation to the inside. I turned on the chiller last night just to make sure it still worked, setting it to 55F. The room and cooler were 67, but within an hour the cooler was 55 and the chiller shut off. Of course with no thermal mass in there nor anything to disrupt air flow, as soon as I opened the door, the chiller turned on again.

Cooler has a cork floor now too. The baseboard was chosen to be as low profile as possible, and black to match the metal of shelving and my wine racks. The thin wall pieces there divide the beer section from the wine section.

And this is a better view of the wall in the cooler that divides the beer section from the wine section. You can still see blue painters tape on various items as a second coat of paint is still to come. Below the room-to-room fan there (circumscribed wtih tape) is the mount for the vinyl strip door. You can just see a corner of the chilling unit on the top left.

I'll get my wife to take better pictures with a wide angle lens on a real camera when things are done. She's the semi-pro photographer in the house.

snowtiger87 · Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 5:08 am Post subject:

You must invite me up when you are finished. I am in Thornton, CO, and nearing the completion of my e-brewery. I just have to wire up the main power cord and pumps, then water test.

I also want to install a walk-in cooler so I would like to see yours in person.

foomench · Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 4:27 pm Post subject:

foomench · Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 5:42 pm Post subject:

Racking installed in cooler, along with curtain door for the beer section. And I did some test fitting. In the beer section I can fit 6 cornies, my 14.5 gallon Fermenator, and at least one gas bottle, possibly two (didn't have the second as it needed to be swapped). Of course the gas bottles don't actually have to be in the beer section if I need more room. Also, I plan to put some shelves in the beer section as well.

**kal** · Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 6:06 pm Post subject:

Nice! So this is wine racking you're going to be using for beer? You must do a lot of bottle aged beers I guess?

Kal

foomench · Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 7:05 pm Post subject:

foomench · Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 1:12 pm Post subject:

Stainless steel fab order arrived last Friday. I put "veneers" on the cabinet doors and the contractor installed the countertop on the grain storage cabinet. Backsplash is up next for installation.

kellzey · Joined: 04 Aug 2011 Posts: 580 Location: Orlando, FL

Excellente! Smile

foomench · Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 10:13 pm Post subject:

Last weekend I drilled the holes through the wall for the faucet shanks, and last night I drilled out the stainless steel backsplash. Here's a test fit of the backsplash. Plan is to stick it to the wall tonight, then install faucets (all with stainless rings). I'm not sure when I'll take that protective coating off.

perogi · Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 11:04 pm Post subject:

How much do you think this is going to cost to keep cool?

foomench · Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 11:20 pm Post subject: