Services - Brewery Layout & Drafting - Floor plans, workflows & utility coordination
Layouts That Work for Brewers and Builders Drawings Grounded in Real Brew Days
Good drawings save time, money, and a lot of frustration—for you, your contractors, and your inspectors. With a background in brewing and MEP/HVAC drafting, I help translate brewery ideas into layouts and diagrams that support real-world construction and day-to-day operations.
What Brewery Layout & Drafting Covers
Layout work is about more than “where the tanks go.” It's about movement, safety, utilities, and how your team will actually run the space on a busy double-brew day.
- • Brewhouse, cellar, and packaging layout concepts
- • Tank placement, access, and hose routing considerations
- • Planning drainage, trenches, and floor slopes
- • High-level MEP/HVAC coordination from a brewery perspective
- • Glycol and process piping routing strategy
- • Simple, clear plan views and diagrams for contractors
Working Alongside Architects, Engineers, and Contractors
Most breweries already have an architect, engineer, or general contractor involved. My role is not to replace them—it's to give them brewery-specific information so they can do better work on your behalf.
That might look like:
- • Providing brewer-informed markups on early floor plans
- • Highlighting critical clearances, flow paths, and safety issues
- • Calling out brewery-specific utility needs in plain language
- • Supplying simple diagrams your engineers can fold into their drawings
New Builds, Retrofits, and Expansions
Breweries rarely start with a perfect blank slate. You might be converting a warehouse, sharing space with another business, or expanding into the unit next door. Each scenario has different layout and drafting needs.
We can focus on:
- • First-pass concepts for new construction or tenant upfits
- • “Phase 2” or “Phase 3” expansion planning around future tanks and packaging
- • Reworking existing layouts that are fighting your current workflow
- • Making sure today’s choices don't block tomorrow's growth
How Layout & Drafting Projects Typically Run
We start with whatever you have—architectural plans, a broker's PDF, napkin sketches, or photos and rough dimensions. From there, I put together brewer-informed layout concepts or markups you can circulate with your project team.
Depending on the scope, we can move in stages: concept sketches, more detailed layouts, and then brewery-focused notes that plug into your architect or engineer's workflow. The goal is a space that feels good to brew in and makes sense to build.