Blichmann Top Tier - Sell it or install it?

Last night at the meeting we discussed what we should do for the top tier stand that was donated last year.

The options are 1. sell it or 2. put it in place and let general membership use it in the brewhouse. 

It's set up now to retail around $750 from what I can tell. Used it may fetch up to $550 if we can find a local buyer.

Putting it in place would be minimal cost:

$130 for a 15 gallon hot liquor tank on ebay

~$40 for a sightglass

~80 for misc parts to plumb gas and water to it. Chuck said we have most of the parts in house now.

Total to install: $250

If we want to put it in, it could go South of brew bay 4 or in between brew bay 1 and 2. We'd use the same mash tuns and boil kettle that we've been using. There would be no Tower of Power like the current alchemist-only one has.

Brandon was questioning "why do we need this?" and "what does this do that a regular brew bay does not?" which are valid questions.

In my opinion, I think it would be a good addition to the BH for very little cost. If the desire is there, we can add on with better equipment down the road.

I'll leave this up for a week, board will have final say after that.