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It’s A Miracle!

Actually, it’s not a miracle, it’s cyclical. Miracle Mild is back, in all its silky glory. Our traditional ruby-brown British style real ale, with flavors of roasted nuts, chocolate, coffee, and a bit of fruit, pours forth with the beautiful… Continue Reading…

The Good Smoke

From the beginning of planning our brewery, we knew a couple of things: we would smoke our own malt for those beers that require it, and we’d be doing a collaboration with our homebrew buddy Jeff. Those two stipulations are… Continue Reading…

A Precious Brew

In the fermenter as of Tuesday is a new beer I’ve been wanting to brew for quite a while: Ramotswe Red. Fans of serial novelist Alexander McCall Smith may have already guessed what the not-so-secret ingredient is, as the beer… Continue Reading…

Perry Rides Again

My old brewery peristaltic pump, Perry for short, is back in action, and saving me a lot of tedious chore-time. These pumps move a discrete amount of liquid with every revolution, so if you know how much it pumps out… Continue Reading…

Transitioning

This website is shortly going to move from placeholder/progress blog to actual brewery taproom/restaurant website. Things have been happening rapidly, if a bit chaotically. We have a taproom manager, Tim, who is setting up our front-of-house operations, and assembling staff.… Continue Reading…

Flying Colors

Despite being configured and installed by me, the mill and auger seem to be up to the job at hand. (Pro-tip: it’s easier to set the gap on a mill that’s spinning in the right direction.) One concern was that… Continue Reading…

Upgrading Alibaba

Speaking of modifications, (weren’t we?) the keg washer that was included in the purchase of the brewery is of the ‘alibaba.com’ sort, ie junky Chinese-fabricated, and included neither a pressure gauge nor a heater for the detergent tank. Not ideal,… Continue Reading…

Saving My Button Finger

So, in measuring volumes with the mashtun flowmeter, it quickly became apparent that some streamlining was necessary. To reset the total gallons on the the mashtun flowmeter required like 15 keypresses through 3 menus, instead of the more typical ‘push/hold… Continue Reading…

The Fountain

I just realized I never posted this video of our beautiful fountain in operation. Since this was taken, a couple of small refinements were made to the installation but this is essentially the finished project:

Secret Ingredient?

The bottles are the perfect size & shape to serve as reservoirs for my water treatments. Should I de-label them? Leaning that way, currently.