Hops…
Getting a grip on inventory
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Field Trip to Grain Place Foods
Joined by Blue Blood and Scratchtown Brewing Cos.
Looking at future sources of local and organic grains.
Super Sack racks installed
Now we are able to have 2 2000lb sacks of grains, such as 2-Row, Maris Otter, Munich, Vienna or Pilsner. These will be very handy while we grow to the point of needing a solo.
Preparing the Horizontal Conditioning Tank
I passivated these tanks a few months ago along with the rest of our tanks but this one hasn’t been used yet. So I gave it a light acid washing today and am purging it with CO2. Tomorrow I will sanitize it and fill it with our Pre-Prohibition Pilsner called Robber’s Pils.
It’s going to lager, or cold-condition here for a month or so before going into a Serving Vessel.
Dressed up for holiday photo shoot
Cleaning up the lab today.
Tuesday Nov 17th 2014
Today I bought some measuring cups,
And a silicone spatula. The measuring cups are to manually dose the boiler chemicals. The silicone spatula is for for getting the last of the yeast out of buckets. Maybe some hop slurries in a fit of dry-hopping. Now, it’s time to clean the jockey box.
Filling casks
Buckboard English Pale Ale w Junga Dry Hop
Harvest Ale 2013
We picked hops right off the bines for our forth annual Harvest Ale. 
And used some flaked rye as well as some crystal rye for color
Hop Extract cans for bittering went right into the kettle, cans and all. ~30 IBU per can. 
We added about 120 lbs of fresh picked Cascades to our makeshift hop back fashioned out of our awesome Lauter Tun. 
After fermentation was complete te beer was dry hopped with a blend f Columbus, Willamette and Chinook hops. Looking forward to this one.
Emptying and Filling some barrels
About halfway through last June fellow brewer Jimmy and I filled four freshly emptied whiskey barrels. Two of them were actually from Jack Daniels. We filled them with our porter and sent them away to our warehouse to hang out for 6 weeks.
Today we racked the beer into a bright tank so we can keg it next week and we filled these 4 barrels with a higher gravity Oatmeal Stout, and we have 4 new barrels for a total of 8 barrels.
We added some cocoa nibs to beef up the chocolate character. We’ll bottle this in November.
