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If you have plans to start a commercial nanobrewery or even a production brewery with a bottling line, it can be smart to use a large homebrew rig as the initial commercial system. And, when it’s approved, it will magically become a nanobrewery. It is true that nanobreweries often can’t produce enough beer to turn a profit that one can live off, and you won’t be distributing pallets of beer far and wide, but you can expand later and fulfill those dreams, or be happy brewing great local beer on your cool nanobrewery system!

If you have plans to start a commercial nanobrewery or even a production brewery with a bottling line, it can be smart to use a large homebrew rig as the initial commercial system. And, when it’s approved, it will magically become a nanobrewery. It is true that nanobreweries often can’t produce enough beer to turn a profit that one can live off, and you won’t be distributing pallets of beer far and wide, but you can expand later and fulfill those dreams, or be happy brewing great local beer on your cool nanobrewery system!

== Steps ==

== Steps ==

#Consider why you want to use a nanobrewery. Of course you want to make commercial beer that the public can enjoy! Also, starting small makes sense because it can take over a year to get a [[Visit a Microbrewery|brewery]] approved, and there is always the chance that your brewery won’t be approved due to location or the condition of the building that houses the brewery. And you do need to have a working brewing system in your brewery before the entire brewery can be approved. So why risk many thousands of dollars on a commercial brewing system and related infrastructure such as a steam boiler, piped glycol system, and industrial electronic controls when you can set up a [[Homebrew Gluten Free Sorghum Beer|homebrew]] system for the initial approval process? After your brewery is approved, you can upgrade at your leisure if desired. It can, after all, take many grueling months to put together a decent-sized microbrewery. If you agree that this is a good idea, you’ll need to know that you can’t simply roll, drag, or heft your RIMS (Recirculating Infusion Mash System), MoreBeer sculpture, or homemade setup into a commercial space and tell the inspectors to come on over. There’s some technical hurdles that you’ll need to overcome, and you don’t want to have to reschedule additional inspections, as that’ll lengthen your approval process considerably.

#Consider why you want to use a nanobrewery. Of course you want to make commercial beer that the public can enjoy! Also, starting small makes sense because it can take over a year to get a [[Visit a Microbrewery|brewery]] approved, and there is always the chance that your brewery won’t be approved due to location or the condition of the building that houses the brewery. And you do need to have a working brewing system in your brewery before the entire brewery can be approved. So why risk many thousands of dollars on a commercial brewing system and related infrastructure such as a steam boiler, piped glycol system, and industrial electronic controls when you can set up a [[Homebrew Gluten Free Sorghum Beer|homebrew]] system for the initial approval process? After your brewery is approved, you can upgrade at your leisure if desired. It can, after all, take many grueling months to put together a decent-sized microbrewery. If you agree that this is a good idea, you’ll need to know that you can’t simply roll, drag, or heft your RIMS (Recirculating Infusion Mash System), MoreBeer sculpture, or homemade setup into a commercial space and tell the inspectors to come on over. There’s some technical hurdles that you’ll need to overcome, and you don’t want to have to reschedule additional inspections, as that’ll lengthen your approval process considerably.