Beer Forum

A few episodes ago Jay from Weasel Boy said he has a 7 barrel system and pardon my ignorance but does that mean he can boil 7 barrels at a time which is 217 gallons or does that mean his entire system including fermentation supports 7 barrels? I wanna know please. I am gonna be calling in on Sunday bucking for drunk of the week so if I don't get an answer here I'll axe then too.

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It means each batch can produce 7 barrels of beer. A lot of breweries will run several batches to fill their fermenters.

A 7 bbl system typically will be able to mash and boil to complete a batch of that size. As TDS said, a 7 bbl system can be used to single batch a 7bbl fermentor, double batch to fill a 15bbl, etc, etc.

Wow that is a huge batch of beer 217 gallons. The thought of it makes me feel lightheaded, and kinda jealous too

And thanks for the answer folks

ScottyB-Brewing wrote:Wow that is a huge batch of beer 217 gallons. The thought of it makes me feel lightheaded, and kinda jealous too

And that is starting to be considered on the small side these day

I work in the waste water department at my job. We have 14 tanks that are 5,000 gallons each. When I'm bored I think about how cool it would be if that were all beer.

TheDarkSide wrote:

ScottyB-Brewing wrote:Wow that is a huge batch of beer 217 gallons. The thought of it makes me feel lightheaded, and kinda jealous too

And that is starting to be considered on the small side these day

Now I really have equipment envy with my little 15.5 keggle and 10 gallon mash tun and my 6 gallon carboys