I'm just getting started on research on the walk-in we plan on building in our brewery. Here's a draft layout of the taproom.
I don't know if this is do-able, it seems so to me, but I am not a contractor. We want to build the walk-in to a height of about 7'6" inside, and then have a mezzanine floor on top of it. We have to be pretty specific on that height or we're not going to get the mezzanine in. So, that would seem to give us a rather large (16x20) area that I would think would need to be supported by wood or metal I-beams. It would have concrete floor inside, and have space for our kegs on draft, pallets of kegs, and some bright beer tanks. It would have a coil roll-up door so we could get full pallets of beer in and out. It would have an outside chiller unit, or possibly be run off our brewery glycol chiller.
So, with all this stuff it would seem to me that we are talking about a custom build, but I have not started inquiring with companies that sell pre-fab walk-ins or kits. I want to make sure that we build this thing right if we do it ourselves. I don't want to have to go back and pull out a bunch of rotted wood later because we didn't seal it right or use the right materials.
So...thoughts? Is this crazy, or do-able? Or just cost-prohibitive? What types of materials should we use? Or am I trying to re-invent the wheel? Is it possible to buy something like this?
Thanks for the help!
Sean
I don't know if this is do-able, it seems so to me, but I am not a contractor. We want to build the walk-in to a height of about 7'6" inside, and then have a mezzanine floor on top of it. We have to be pretty specific on that height or we're not going to get the mezzanine in. So, that would seem to give us a rather large (16x20) area that I would think would need to be supported by wood or metal I-beams. It would have concrete floor inside, and have space for our kegs on draft, pallets of kegs, and some bright beer tanks. It would have a coil roll-up door so we could get full pallets of beer in and out. It would have an outside chiller unit, or possibly be run off our brewery glycol chiller.
So, with all this stuff it would seem to me that we are talking about a custom build, but I have not started inquiring with companies that sell pre-fab walk-ins or kits. I want to make sure that we build this thing right if we do it ourselves. I don't want to have to go back and pull out a bunch of rotted wood later because we didn't seal it right or use the right materials.
So...thoughts? Is this crazy, or do-able? Or just cost-prohibitive? What types of materials should we use? Or am I trying to re-invent the wheel? Is it possible to buy something like this?
Thanks for the help!
Sean
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