The Brewery History
I originally started brewing back in the early nineties with Boots the Chemist Homebrew Kits. Well they we're pretty awful but I was young and it was fun. Anyway, when I grew up and got married, bought a house got a dog etc. I went 'Full Mash' with my brewing. That is started to use grain and hops instead of kits. To this end the first true 'Wibblers Brewery' was constructed........
(Stage One 1999 to 2001)
The Hot Liquor Tank and Mash Tun with rotating sparge arm attached.
The Stainless Steel 'Copper' on top of the propane burner.
The Bullfinch Propane Burner.
(Stage Two 2001 onwards)
In the autumn of 2001 we decided to re-arrange the brewery to cater for the increased brew length of 18 gallons. This involved a number of things:
-Building a walk in air conditioned cellar at the rear of the brewery to store all the beer in.
-Converting the old cellar (the converted chest freezer) to a lagering fridge.
-Building/cladding the above with some nicely varnished wood to make it look like a bar to cope with the 2 four tap fonts and beer engine.
-Enclosing the more powerful motorised grain mill within the above in an attempt to reduce the amount of dust flying around the place whilst it's being used.
-Building a new bigger 'Counter-flow-chiller' (CFC) which forms part of the lagging of the new bigger mash tun.
-Utilising a 100 litre keg as the new primary fermenter.
-Building an electronic temperature controller to maintain an accurate and controlled fermentation temperature.