Instructions not included

There are no instructions on how to use this vast array of equipment that you just paid tens (hundreds?) of thousands of dollars for.

SO- you research and you talk and hopefully you have spent time in other breweries, watching all the goings-on.

Yet, your brewery is not the same as theirs.  And there are a lot of things which the other breweries are doing which you don't even notice.

So when it comes down to it, there is far more in the actual building and setting up of the brewery than you could possibly have imagined.

We struggled at first with getting our pumps working correctly
We are doing everything we can to have thermometers in places, because though the brew house included a fancy control panel, the sensor wires are too short
The trench drain creates an entire new colony of bacteria and yeast if left to its own devices.  Quickly
Sanitizer mixing out of a 5 gallon bucket is NOT like star-san
Hoses don't bend. Like, seriously
pH meters need to be calibrated
Stainless must be passivasted
CIP does NOT mean "easy"
Grain dust is very dusty
Don't forget your CLT.  It's the forgotten step-child
Glycol valves- put them at arm height if you can

There will be plenty more. Every minute, there is another discovery!