Thanks guys. I've done some more reading and I've got a few ideas on how to help the yeast out. I'll post more here if my next batch is better.

Hey expert brewers, I'm hoping you can shed some light on an issue I've been having with every batch of beer I brew. They are all coming out with a strange off flavor. Sometimes it's more prolific than others. But it doesn't match the descriptions of a lot of off flavor tables I've seen online...

I know it well, it's my local homebrew shop! Thanks for your insight.

That's one of the ideas I've been toying with. Ideally I would like to run everything on one system, but my concern is that homebrewers will be unwilling(able) to scale their recipes up successfully to a multi-barrel size.

Oh I'm not saying you're wrong, just that I don't want this to become the focus here. As far as a previous poster mentioned, it was my intention to have a number of "flagship" beers that we make regularly to fill in gaps with bad batches or lack of interested homebrewers.

I've spent a lot of time calculating the cost of making the beer and selling it. For the purpose of this post I'm simply trying to get a sense of interest from the homebrewer side of things. I appreciate the info but I'd like to focus on the idea without the money at this point. My numbers...

Haha sadly no, but I appreciate the response!

Thanks for the response Surfmase, I have had this discussion with many people around in around in circles and it's somewhat comforting to have you thinking along the same lines. I hope some additional information below can help shed some more light on my hopes here. In short yes the bar would...

I'm sure that other people have had this idea (after some Googling I'm actually sure of it). I have a dream of opening a brewery that allows local homebrewers to use industrial grade brewing equipment to make beer and sell it right in the brewhouse (keg straight to a tap at the same location)...

Re: Airlock stopped bubbling after 2 days of aggressive bubb Ok great that is reassuring. Like I said I had a suspicion that I had been under-aerating. Now that the result is different I'm hoping the beer comes out the way it's supposed to for once. Thanks for the replies! I'll try to remember...

I've made about batches of all grain beer so far in my short life as a homebrewer. Each time I've been afraid of over aerating the wort before pitching the yeast because I didn't want to get an infection. And each time I think I've had some weird flavors as a result of the yeast not having...