- So I'm really just documenting
this process because again, I've never done this before
so I don't really know what's, what's gonna happen or like what I'm up for but we'll see. Let me back up, my name is Matt Giovanisci My first boil over was in 2006 and I've been home brewing ever since. I moved from New Jersey to the beer Mecca of the US Colorado in 2015. I scaled up my brewing significantly and eventually started
the website brewcabin.com. My dream has been to build my own permanent indoor home brewery. Recently I bought a house that
allowed me to do just that, this is my house, this
is my second garage. I think it was supposed
to be a boat garage but I don't own a boat,
so I'm building a brewery. Truthfully, I don't know what I'm doing so I'm hiring help and trying
to do it in just 40 days. The first step is designing it. So I called my dad. (cell phone rings) Hi, so I guess what do you need from me then, just measurements? - Yeah, I kinda estimated off that floor plan I sent you so, - Right so we just had pictures. - Right, then I just worked
that from the pictures so now what you're gonna do
is you're gonna measure it basically the way I'm gonna
tell you which is just going from wall to wall and then
from wall to the window, - What! - And then the window width, so I gotta know where the
window is placed in each, in the room, the door. So all of that, you know,
you measure it in sections and then you just, I'll write it down and then I'll modify the
program so it matches what you found in the field. - Okay, is there anything else you need? - No that should do it? - All right thanks. - All right.
- Bye. - See you later, bye. - After some quick measuring, (measuring tape squeaking) I sent my dad the dimensions. Meanwhile I bought a door, a sink, a condensate hood for ventilation an RO system, lights, a new
garage door opener thingy, a fan for ventilation and
a freezer for hop storage. Then I called around and
started getting estimates for the work. I got the email back from my dad, here's what the design looks like. Okay, that's kinda
boring, what about this? Wow, let me just give you a tour. So this is the brewery space
and got a window, got a table, this is the prep table right here. That's gonna be the sink obviously. That's gonna be where everything brews, there'll be a hood up over there. Door will be there and
this wall will be painted and we're gonna actually
add a bar right there and then over under the
window will be the kegs, kegerator, things like that and then probably
fermentation station over here or I may put fermentation over
here, not really sure yet, or I may switch prep table over
there, fermentation station. Not really sure how my workflow
is gonna be but right now, some stuff I'm gonna do myself, other things I'm gonna hire out only because I'm not
really a handy person, I mean, I can do some stuff,
so we'll see what happens. All right, next time I
put the camera on the door will be installed, or in the
middle of being installed. (bright upbeat music) We just installed the door and
here is what it looks like. What you can see there
is the brand new door to the back of the brewery. The brewery also has a rooftop deck with these stairs, the staircase here and that's the back door
now it has just been put in There's the new door
'cause that's the door to the other garage, so the
only way to get to this garage is you have to go through another garage to get to this garage and
if there's a car in the way, it's kind of awkward
and so this way, I mean, obviously you have the giant
garage here that makes sense but I'm not gonna open
up the giant garage door, 'cause it's space is gonna be conditioned, it's gonna be heated, it's
gonna be cooled, all that stuff. Well, that's enough of that. Now I had to figure out where
I wanted all the outlets and lights installed. So I used masking tape to mark off where I wanted everything. Then the electricians came
out and did all the work in just one day, roll the montage. (bright classical music) Okay, I wanna go around and
document all the lights, all the outlets, all the electricity that was run into the brewery. I hope this is all correct and I hope my plans
accounted for future things. I guess worst case scenario,
I can just plug in, you know, power strips or
whatever if I need extra outlets but let's walk through it. So I had the electrician add three sconces and then underneath is an outlet for, I don't know charging phones or whatever. So this is the garage door opener and I had him move it 'cause it used to be on
the other side of the door but now it's on this side. One switch controls all
the lights up there. The other switch will control the sconces. Electrician said he had to put a light in on the outside here so
that's the back of the light. So yeah, that's the, that's the door. I have a regular 110
outlet going right there and then I have two, 240
volts twist lock outlets going in right there. Then there's gonna be a switch
here for the light outside. Then there's gonna be another
switch for another outlet. That outlet is going to
control the fan for the hood. On this wall, I had him
put in four outlets. This outlet right here
is gonna be for water. This outlet right here is
gonna be for prep table stuff. This middle outlet right here will be for the kegerator and fridges. This last one would have been for like, so I need one for fermentors
because the fermentors have the glycol chiller, all the fermentors have their
own temperature control. So I'm gonna need multiple outlets but those are gonna be
on a battery backup. All right, so what now (sighs)? Let me put the camera down
'cause this is exhausting. So this is the brewery so far. There's still a lot that
needs to be done, like a lot. I have a really good contractor
who's been kind of doing he's the one that installed the door, he's gonna do the insulation, he's gonna do the floors, we're just gonna power wash and seal them. He's gonna do the painting. We have a separate
person doing the drywall. We have a plumber coming in
doing the RO line and the sink, the electrician came that's all done he's just gonna come back after painting to put all the outlets in and face plates and stuff like that for
the lights and outlets. And then after that,
once the dry walls in, the concrete is sealed it's
gonna be the mini-split above the door. I feel like it's all I do
is spend time on this thing but it's kinda one of the
reasons we bought the place so that's it, all right. See you in the next one, bye. Okay, it looks the plumber just showed up. He wants to talk about a strategy for where I want the pipes for the sink. So I wanna record what's going on, but I don't want him to know so I'm just gonna put
the phone in my pocket and I'll just record the conversation, so let's see, here we are. Hey. - [Plumber] Hey, so
yeah where do you think you want these pipes? - [Matt] Well, what I was
hoping is to kinda run along the top of the ceiling here in the wall and then maybe come down right
along the, the corner here. - [Plumber] You mean you
want 'em in the wall? - [Matt] Yeah. - [Plumber] Well these are only 2x4s, - [Matt] Okay. - [Plumber] So if you put
the pipes in the wall, they're guaranteed gonna freeze. - [Matt] So, (sighs)
what are my options then? - [Plumber] Well, I recommend
you put them on the inside of the wall 'cause they're
guaranteed gonna freeze. I'm gonna put PEX in so
it has room to expand, but I (laughs), I would not recommend it. - [Matt] You'll see the pipe then? - [Plumber] Yeah, you'll see the pipes. - (sighs) All right, fine. ♪ I got a guy to install
the sink that I bought ♪ ♪ But hiding them pipes in the wall ♪ ♪ Is a little harder than I thought ♪ ♪ When I told the plumber
to put them in the wall ♪ ♪ He said to me, he said ♪ ♪ You can't put the pipes in the wall ♪ ♪ 'Cause if I do I could lose it all ♪ ♪ And if it drops down
to negative 20 degrees ♪ ♪ All my mother (beep) pipes will freeze ♪ ♪ So I can't put the pipes in the wall ♪ ♪ And that's okay I guess ♪ ♪ That's okay I guess ♪ ♪ That's okay ♪ (guitar bangs) This is the back wall, what
I'm calling work production and I'm gonna turn the camera around. The sink is gonna go
right here in the corner. Now at first I thought
underneath the sink drain or the tray, or the drip tray,
I could put in a reservoir a blue reservoir for an RO system, unfortunately I cannot do that anymore because the Drainosaur, which is the thing that we
need to use for the drain won't really fit underneath
this because of the S valve or the S pipe, so we have
to put it under here. These studs are 2x4s, not a lot of room for insulation. And the fact that this is an outside wall, this goes right outside, it means that it's not a good idea to put plumbing in behind the drywall. It could freeze even
though we're using PEX, it could freeze. I guess long story short,
you're gonna see the pipes and I think I'm okay with that. I know I'm okay with it, I have to be okay with it, it'll be fine. Okay, so I wanna show you what they did. There's the pipe he had it
come through, there it is. And then there's, there's the
PEX line for the hot and cold and it runs kinda all along up here which actually looks really cool. I kinda like the way it
looks next to the radon line and it kinda just follows the
radon pipe all the way down and then into the basement
where it's connected to the hot and cold line
and added to the drain. That was, he said, that was the hard part, just getting it tapped in. So now that we're tapped
in, all he's gonna do is he's gonna run a straight piece of hot and cold PEX straight. So what does that mean? That means he has to come
back and do the rest later because as of right now,
all the pipe is connected. So we have water, we have
sewage and it's here, it's in the brewery just
not connected to the sink and the RO is not run. What's gonna have to
happen is this Saturday, which is tomorrow, somebody
is coming in to put the insulation in just the ceiling and then Monday they're coming back to do the insulation on the walls. On Tuesday, they're gonna do the drywall. So I'm hoping that we
can have this painted, like taped, spackled, painted before the, the electrician comes. Okay, that said, let's open
up this condensate hood and I (sighs), I don't know. I'm curious to see what
this thing looks like, so let's do it. (upbeat music) The sink was installed, and what I'm about to
show you in the brewery is kind of it's semi sort of finished because once they installed the sink, I decided to just start moving
things into the brewery, even though it's not done, just to kinda see where
I wanted things laid out. So let's take a look at the sink. The way we're doing the sink is we have a Drainosaur
installed down here. So if we go down here, water
you know, drains into this, from underneath the sink,
this fills up once it gets to a certain height pump
kicks on and pumps it up through that white check
valve all the way up the wall and then it's on a slight downgrade, I think it's a 1/8th inch
downgrade all the way to the sewage line. You can see here, that's an RO line. So we just have this one
pipe coming up, coming over and then going into the pot filler. So next time you see me
the mini-split will be in. After a few days, the HVAC
company installed the mini-split so the brewery can be heated and cool. A few more days after that,
the painter came back to paint the floors and install
the black rubber trim. The same day he installed the
trim I reinstalled the sink, started moving in all my
home brewing equipment putting up the RO system and
pot filler, hanging shelves and just a few more final touches. And after 40 days, my permanent
indoor home brewery dream was finally realized. (upbeat music) What should I brew? (upbeat music)
