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Cooper Island Beachclub Brewery
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03/01/2016 04:52 PM
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Any word on whether the new brewery at Cooper is operational? The brewhouse was delivered in the fall. We pinged them in January and it was not up yet.
Cheers, RickG
S/V Echoes, 2003 Beneteau 423 Grenada
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Re: Cooper Island Beachclub Brewery
[Re: gd1147]
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03/02/2016 07:55 PM
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I'll give them a call. No need to stop by by if they're not up and running. We've had some fun at Cooper Island, but the food underwhelms and the rum bar needs a care package from the French islands. But, we'll stop every time for a proper pint.
Cheers, RickG
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Re: Cooper Island Beachclub Brewery
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03/02/2016 09:50 PM
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I would imagine they are filtering the H2O from the cistern then (hopefully) making water adjustments in the kettle.
edit to say, in re reading your post I would agree that they would use a shitton of water that doesn't end up as product....I haven't read anything on this in a few years but I think you could find info that states it takes anywhere from 5-50 gallons of water to produce a gallon of beer. There may be a guy or two here ITB that could chime in. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/dine.gif" alt="" />
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Re: Cooper Island Beachclub Brewery
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03/02/2016 10:04 PM
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I make my own beer time to time. It doesn't take 5-50 gallons of water to make 1 gallon of beer. At most you are looking at ~8 gallons max of drinking water going into 5 gallons of beer. For cooling your beer from boiling to 70 degrees F you will need cold waste water that will go through a chilling coil and not be part of the final product, but seawater can provide this function without much energy other than what it takes to run a pump used.
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Re: Cooper Island Beachclub Brewery
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03/03/2016 09:41 AM
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If you include the water used for sanitation before hand, cooling the wort, and cleaning up everything afterwords (including the fermenting tanks after fermentation is done), my guess would be at least 3-4 gallons of water used for each gallon of drinkable beer. Even if you used seawater for chilling, you would have to rinse with plenty of fresh water to avoid corrosion. Any place where water is a seriously limited resource, I can't see the economics working out.
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