My business partner and I are in the process of opening a brewery here in SE Michigan and have looked at the SABCO 2bbl Nano system and a 7bbl system for our initial brew pub system. For our two potential investors I am creating price breakdowns for both of these options to create a business case. Each have their trade offs as the nano 2bbl system will require less footprint, cheaper, BUT allot more brewing (per day) to keep up with future demand. The 7BBL is more expensive, but will require less time brewing.
My question is has anyone used or is using this SABCO system? or have heard reviews? I did some research on it and noticed that Sam from Dog Fish Head replaced his 6bbl brew pub with this nano system and has been able to keep up with his demand using this smaller system because of its high process efficiency (time). SABCO claims you can produce 2,000 to 3,000 bbl per year on the system, but of course i am assuming that is based on brewing multiple times per day and having capacity of multiple fermenters and brite tanks.
I've talked with Bob CEO of SABCO via email on his machine and my major concern was that to yield 2bbl of beer into your brite tank the highest ABV you can brew is at around 5%. voicing my concern on that we would also like to brew some larger beers and he said they could increase the mash tun and boil kettle volume from 80 to 100 gallons. With that volume increase I am definitely keeping this nano system in my business case, but have not heard any feedback from anyone in the industry that uses this system. If anyone has any feed back on the SABCO nano brewery that they could share it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Rob
My question is has anyone used or is using this SABCO system? or have heard reviews? I did some research on it and noticed that Sam from Dog Fish Head replaced his 6bbl brew pub with this nano system and has been able to keep up with his demand using this smaller system because of its high process efficiency (time). SABCO claims you can produce 2,000 to 3,000 bbl per year on the system, but of course i am assuming that is based on brewing multiple times per day and having capacity of multiple fermenters and brite tanks.
I've talked with Bob CEO of SABCO via email on his machine and my major concern was that to yield 2bbl of beer into your brite tank the highest ABV you can brew is at around 5%. voicing my concern on that we would also like to brew some larger beers and he said they could increase the mash tun and boil kettle volume from 80 to 100 gallons. With that volume increase I am definitely keeping this nano system in my business case, but have not heard any feedback from anyone in the industry that uses this system. If anyone has any feed back on the SABCO nano brewery that they could share it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Rob
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