How much does beer equipment cost
- Jul 17, 2021
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- tiantai
Your craft beer brewing brewery needs essential equipment: kettles, kegs, boilers, bottling and canning lines, conveyors, cooling systems, storage tanks, fermentation tanks, filters and beer-labeling machines, piping and tubing, refrigeration equipment, cleaning equipment, waste treatment systems and tap handles.
Although you can get the cheapest equipment for reasonable prices, if you purchase equipment with less capacity and your brewery turns out to be a success, you can run into problems because the system will be difficult and costly to modify, says Kolada, who recommends taking a more conservative approach when crafting your budget.
“If you’ve done your homework and details, and you think your project will cost extra, I would highly recommend that you up that by about 50%, just for the unforeseen, and see if your business plan would still work under that scenario,” Kolada says. Check out Nerdwallet’s best options for beer equipment financing.
Of course, your brewery also needs a home. The monthly cost of rent depends heavily on your location and the size of the building. You may need to come up with the first month’s rent plus a security deposit for the landlord when you sign a lease. And you’ll also probably need to do construction on the building to get it fit for the brewery.
“You have to consider plumbing, electric needs, if the ceilings are high enough — you may have to tear out existing concrete slabs and repour them so the water drains properly — there’s a whole laundry list of things that goes into it,” says Kolada, who added that as a general rule of thumb, you should take your equipment costs and, double them, and that’s what you’re going to spend on construction for your building.
The cost of flooring is often overlooked, Sama says. A good composite floor that will withstand impact shock, temperature shock and acid from beer will cost upward of $10 a square foot, according to Sama.
“You will spill beer on the brewery floor when you’re brewing,” Sama says, “so if you have, say, a 100-barrel tank sitting there, you don’t want the cement underneath to erode away and have your tank topple over.”
Although you can get the cheapest equipment for reasonable prices, if you purchase equipment with less capacity and your brewery turns out to be a success, you can run into problems because the system will be difficult and costly to modify, says Kolada, who recommends taking a more conservative approach when crafting your budget.
“If you’ve done your homework and details, and you think your project will cost extra, I would highly recommend that you up that by about 50%, just for the unforeseen, and see if your business plan would still work under that scenario,” Kolada says. Check out Nerdwallet’s best options for beer equipment financing.
Of course, your brewery also needs a home. The monthly cost of rent depends heavily on your location and the size of the building. You may need to come up with the first month’s rent plus a security deposit for the landlord when you sign a lease. And you’ll also probably need to do construction on the building to get it fit for the brewery.
“You have to consider plumbing, electric needs, if the ceilings are high enough — you may have to tear out existing concrete slabs and repour them so the water drains properly — there’s a whole laundry list of things that goes into it,” says Kolada, who added that as a general rule of thumb, you should take your equipment costs and, double them, and that’s what you’re going to spend on construction for your building.
The cost of flooring is often overlooked, Sama says. A good composite floor that will withstand impact shock, temperature shock and acid from beer will cost upward of $10 a square foot, according to Sama.
“You will spill beer on the brewery floor when you’re brewing,” Sama says, “so if you have, say, a 100-barrel tank sitting there, you don’t want the cement underneath to erode away and have your tank topple over.”
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