can you make with tanks this big? The brewery next door is expanding and it looks like they are going to be brewing some serious quantities. Don't know what these tanks do but they are huge....40' at least.
It says in your location that you're in Cumming. Please let me know where that is exactly. I think we have a drill, a funnel and some empty VP cans somewhere...
<warning: beer geek> Tough to tell based on the angle and scaling, but I would estimate those at 100-200 BBL tanks. A BBL is 31 US gallons, so, probably enough to fill a small home size swimming pool. <edit> Rx revels that Sweetwater has an estimated annual capacity of 100K BBL, which likely puts the brewhouse at 50BBL and tanks at 2x brewlength, so nominal 100BL +30% for ferment overspace.
Those are S.S. cone bottom hoppers and they look to be about 12’dia. x 32’ high which would be around 27,000 gallons each……so a total of 108,000 gallons of beer….Nice!!
Diameter is considerably less than 12'. for scale reference, see the pallet of malt sacks -- they are about 3 feet long.
Standard pallets are 40" x 48". Those are facing 48" wide...unless they are custom pallets. Those tanks look to be 10'-12'D
Could be, as I meant the sacks themselves are 3 feet long. The tanks are also jacketed, so internal dimension < outer. No matter, they are bigger than I thought originally-- more like 3-400 BBL. If that's the case I bet the brewlength is longer than 50BBL. 100K barrels a year is a lot of production (2x Anchor), but certainly nothing like Sierra or Sam Adams. Then there is that PN brewery that has a guaranteed demand through WERA. Industrial brewing, while a lot like it was a hundred years ago, is technologically changing pretty fast.
10' to 12' dia......they are shop built tanks and you can haul 12' wide tanks down the road...but it a pain in the ass if there going very far.
