Brewing & Homebrew Parts
Homebrew kit is a collection of buckets, tubes and fittings that were never designed to go together, which is why every brewer ends up bodging an adaptor. Printing the adaptor is easy. Knowing which parts should never be printed is the bit worth reading first.
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Common uses
- Bottling trees, drying racks, capper guides and crate dividers
- Hop bag rings, filter housings and dry-hop holders
- Fermenter brackets, lid clips and thermometer holders
- Custom tap handles, badge holders and font trim
- Cabinet and keezer furniture: shelf supports, drip tray brackets, cable tidies
- Grain mill hoppers, funnels and stand fittings
Food contact, hot wort and what we will not claim
Read this bit before you order. An FDM part is stacked lines of plastic, and the grooves between them are porous at exactly the scale that beer residue and wild yeast like to live in. You cannot clean or sanitise that surface the way you can smooth moulded plastic or stainless — sanitiser wets it, but it does not reach into it. On top of that, filament is a base polymer plus colourants and additives the maker does not fully disclose, and nothing about melting it and extruding it is covered by a food-contact approval. We cannot give a printed part a food-safety rating and we are not going to imply one. So: nothing that sits in wort or beer for a long contact time, nothing on the hot side, and nothing pressure-retaining — no keg posts or fittings, no gas line parts, no pressure barrel components. A pressurised plastic part letting go is a genuinely dangerous thing, not a spoiled batch. Short-contact aids you can inspect and clean, and dry-side furniture, are the sensible use, and the food-safety call on anything touching your beer is yours to make.
Heat is the first question
Everything in brewing is hotter than it looks. PLA starts to soften somewhere around 55 to 60°C, which means a dishwasher will ruin it, a hot sanitising cycle will ruin it, and hot wort is well past the point of discussion. PETG copes with warm but not hot — fine for a fermenter bracket in a warm cupboard, not for anything on the boil side. ASA and ABS take more heat and are the pick for a part near a burner or in a hot cabinet, though the boil kettle is nobody's business but stainless. Tell us the worst temperature the part will ever see, including the cleaning cycle, and we will pick around it rather than guess. On chemicals: PETG generally shrugs off the acid-based no-rinse sanitisers, but tell us what you use and how long the part sits in it.
Tap handles and the dry side
This is the enjoyable end of it. Tap handles are the classic print: the standard interface is a 3/8-16 UNC ferrule, and we design the part around a brass insert or a captive nut rather than a printed thread, because a printed thread on a handle that gets swapped every keg will strip. Beyond that: badge holders, font trim, drip tray brackets, keezer shelf supports, thermometer and hydrometer holders, cable tidies, crate dividers. None of it touches beer, all of it is unobtainable in the shape you want, and it is cheap. Airlock grommets and similar in TPU sit at the edge — a printed flexible part will keep dust out and take up a loose fit, but it is not a pressure seal, so if a bung has a job to do under pressure, buy the moulded one.
How it works
Send your file or describe the part
Upload an STL, OBJ, 3MF or STEP file, or tell us what you need with photos and a few measurements.
Get a guide price
When we can read the geometry we estimate from it straight away — material, print time, supports and quantity all priced openly.
We check printability, then confirm
A person reviews orientation, wall thickness and supports, flags anything that will not print well, and confirms your final quote before any work starts.
Brewing & Homebrew Parts — example prices
Worked examples on real models from our print library, priced by the same calculator that estimates your own part. Sizes span small to large so you can see how cost moves with the part.
| Example part | Size | PLA | PETG | ABS / ASA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| J-Hook (small) | 23 × 34 × 10 mm | £1.28 – £1.63 | £1.36 – £1.73 | £1.54 – £1.96 |
| Wall Hook (small) | 25 × 20 × 35 mm | £2.02 – £2.58 | £2.13 – £2.73 | £2.40 – £3.06 |
| Wall Hook (large) | 45 × 30 × 60 mm | £4.75 – £6.07 | £5.02 – £6.41 | £5.62 – £7.18 |
| Garage Tool Rail (6-hook) | 45 × 228 × 55 mm | £27.16 – £34.71 | £28.67 – £36.64 | £32.05 – £40.96 |
Guide prices for a single unit, calculated from the measured geometry of each example model — not fixed quotes. Small parts land at or near the £0 minimum order, and per-unit prices fall with quantity. Your price depends on your own part, its material and its printability. How pricing works.
Example models for brewing & homebrew parts
Open-source designs from our print library that show the kind of part this service suits. View any of them for a full material and quantity price breakdown.
M6 Washer
Garage Tool Rail (6-hook)
Drawer Organiser Tray
M8 Washer
These are open-source example designs (CC0) we publish to show what the process suits and what it costs — not a record of past jobs. Prices shown are examples in PLA.
Brewing & Homebrew Parts — FAQ
Is a printed part food safe?+
We cannot tell you it is. The layered surface is porous where residue sits and cannot be properly sanitised, and we do not know the full additive package in a given filament. We will happily print you the dry-side kit and the short-contact aids, and we will not sell you something that lives in your beer.
Can you print a keg or pressure barrel fitting?+
No. Nothing pressure-retaining. A layered plastic part has no pressure rating and its failure mode under gas is not a leak, it is a bang. Keg posts, disconnects, gas line parts and barrel fittings all want the proper moulded or machined component.
Can you print a custom tap handle?+
Yes, and it is one of the best uses for this. Send the design or a description, tell us the ferrule you are fitting to, and we will design it around a brass insert so the thread survives being swapped every keg. Layer lines are visible; a light sand and paint gets it to a bar-quality finish.
Will it survive the dishwasher or a hot sanitising cycle?+
PLA will not — a dishwasher will leave you with a warped part. PETG handles warm water and typical no-rinse sanitisers fine. Tell us the hottest thing that will ever happen to the part, cleaning included, and we will choose the material around that rather than around the print.
How much does brewing & homebrew parts cost?+
There is no fixed per-item rate — price comes from how much plastic the part uses, how long it takes to print, how much support and finishing it needs, and how many you want. The example table above shows what real parts of this kind work out at. Upload your file for a guide price on your own part.
How long does it take?+
It depends on the size of the part, the queue and the material. Tell us your deadline when you enquire and we will tell you honestly whether it is achievable before you commit.
Can I order one of the models from your library?+
Yes. Every model in our print library is a design you can have printed — pick one, choose a material and quantity, and the example price on its page is your starting point. You can also download the file and take it elsewhere; they are all CC0.
Are my files kept private?+
Yes. Uploaded files go to private storage, are never made public, and are only used to quote and produce your job.
Worth reading first
Practical guides that help you get a better part and a more accurate quote.
What Is TPU (Flexible Filament)?
TPU is printable rubber. It bends, grips, seals and absorbs shock — and it behaves nothing like PLA, which is the whole point and the whole difficulty.
Nylon and Carbon Fibre Parts
The engineering end of FDM. Nylon is tough and wear-resistant; carbon fibre makes it stiff and stable. Both are harder work — here is when that pays off.
ASA vs ABS for Outdoor Parts
Nearly the same plastic, one important difference: ASA survives sunlight and ABS slowly does not. Here is when that difference is worth paying for.
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