Big Ideas for Small-Scale Craft Brewing: Don’t Miss a Full-Day of 10 Live Online Seminars at the 2026 NanoCon. Register now and Save 25%!
Build It Yourself
Homebrewers are DIYers at heart. If you make your own beer, it makes sense you may want to make your own brewing equipment too. From simple tweaks, and purpose-built gear, to all-out systems, get inspired to BYO (Build Your Own).
Posts
-
Project
The Beer Tower
-
Project
Fermentation Cabinet
Temperature control is key during fermentation. Build this cabinet to provide your fermenter the optimal environment for success.
-
Project
Jacketed Mash Mixer
This project is an electrically heated jacketed mash mixer tun to help loosen starch particles from grains to increase efficiency.
-
Project
Reminder Rings & Filler Hooks
As homebrewers, we all create our own “small builds” — the minor tweaks we make to improve our brew setups. They’re the small stuf
-
Project
Bottle Cleaning/Sanitizing Rack
-
Project
Drill-Powered Carboy Cleaner
-
Project
Build a Better Bottle Capper
Step by step to build your own pneumatic bottle capper.
-
Project
Build a Stir Plate
When used for building yeast starters, the continual stirring of the stir-bar provides constant agitation and aeration of the yeast. The res
-
Project
Motorize Your Mill
-
Project
Chalkboard Kegerator
Tired of bottling or looking to have a better serving option for your kegs? Build this chalkboard kegerator to have your own three-tap servi
-
Project
Build a Custom Beer Fridge
We loved the look of old antique freezers and ice boxes, so we created specs to design and build a fermentation beer fridge that had that ae
-
Project
Toolbox Pump
For this pump project I used an old metal toolbox. The toolbox has multiple valves on in the front so you could use this system simply as a