Monday, August 26, 2013

One of the things the weekend held.

Professional brewing.....on my birthday no less!  Ok, work is busy so I'll keep this short.  It was a crappy outdoor weekend with all the smoke....so the Preacher invited me down to Silver Peak Brewery to help put together a batch of  his "Reddy Eddy".  It was the winning recipe at Backwash two years ago and Silver Peak has decided to bring it back on tap!  The only thing close to biking content from here on out is, yes, we rode our bikes down to the brewery.  So....here's some pics.

Lautering in the Mash tun.  E.g. Rinsing sugars out of the grain....

Taking specific gravity (sugar content) of the Wort (the base of beer before fermentation).  More sugar means higher alcohol content.

The Preacher adding the hops to the boil kettle (bittering agent for the beer).

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