foomench wrote:blanka,
How much did that hood cost you, how big is it, and where did you get it? I've been looking for such a thing. I found one place that I think gave me a quote of around $400-500 or so, plus about $200 shipping. I've seen Type I hoods on craigslist, but they usually are more expensive than that.
Nice setup there, BTW.
-Eric
The hood was custom made for brewery. It's essentially just stainless steel fab work. The vent fan is mounted on the outside of the house and pulls the air from under the hood. I also had to have a return air (make-up air) system installed to compensate for the hood. I think in some of the photos you can see the fan-in-the-can return air system that they installed with it. I want to say that the entire thing cost $3,000 to $3,400. I had a deal with my wife on some other things, so she let me buy the hood
I always hated brewing in the cold of New England. I had some valves literally freeze on me in the past during a brew session. Now I can brew in the comfort of my basement.
If you do something like this, I recommend having it professionally installed by HVAC professionals. They asked questions about my burners on my brewery and had to get the information about my house's NG furnace, water heater and clothes dryer and calculate the type of fan and make-up air system that I needed for my setup. This is not the kind of thing you want to do on your own to save a few bucks. I also have a bunch of CO detectors throughout the house as a precautionary measure. None of them have ever registered ANY presence of CO during my brewing.
