That doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t eventually consider utilising this tactic in your brewery operation. This means that you can have up to 3 “shifts” per 24 hour period.īut in reality, it’s only very large breweries that run 3 shifts, 24 hours per day.Īs a small or new brewery, you’re probably going to start with 1 shift per day. When running a brewery, it’s usually set up into “shifts” which is an 8 hour work day for an individual. That’s not a lot when you own a 2,000L brew house. So, let’s say you intend to sell 50 x 50L kegs of beer and 100 x 24x375mL Cases of Cans (9L each), that’s a total of 3,400L of beer production per week.Īt the risk of being over-simplistic, wort in = beer out so this brewery needs to brew 3,400L of wort per week. Once you have your plan then you need to break it down into weekly production volume. Your business plan should have at the very least, a 2 year sales forecast which should be broken down into keg and pack (bottle/can) sales as well as how many different types of beer you intend to brew simultaneously. 1 – How Much Beer Do You Intend To Sell Each Week?Īt the end of the day, you’re starting a business and building a brewery is just a part of that. In this article, I’m going to run through the 5 considerations you need to make in order to size your brewery properly, get the maximum output and reduce capital costs at the same time. Usually, it’s because that person hasn’t delved into the dark arts of brewery engineering before.
Why is that? What is the thing that sees someone with perhaps some great home brewing experience get the engineering all wrong when it comes time to scale up? Sure, while this is a considered configuration, more often that not, it does not meet their requirements. I recently had a client come to me and say, “Hendo, I need a 20hL, 4 vessel brewhouse and 5 x 20hL Unitanks.” Planning these breweries has been fun and it’s great to see the excitement on the future-brewery-owner’s face as their dream slowly becomes a reality.īut in almost every project, I’ve seen clients come to me with an exact configuration of the brewery they’d like to build. Lately, I’ve been involved in some brewery build projects which, to be honest, brewery engineering isn’t really my forte (I’m more of a beer-making guy than a brewery engineer/builder but I have some great colleagues who support me when I build a brewery).
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