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Testing the process

My typical batches are 5-10 gallons and I have never tried anything bigger.  For the new space, I got some larger kettles for both the mash and the boil, hopefully to have just more than a half barrel system.  This past weekend I tried to mimic the process to make sure the new system was [...]

State of Washington red tape

Well, compared to the TTB, Washington’s process is much simpler to my surprise, since Alcohol is highly regulated here.  In fact, at some point we had to go through the liquor board to get denatured alcohol to use in the research labs at UW.    To initiate this process all I did was sign up [...]

TTB permits

June 22nd, the permitting process began. It actually started before that, but it started again after I signed the lease to the current place in Ballard. Since I had done the paper work before, this time it was much more straight forward, although it sucked writing everything out again. I was kinda surprised as to [...]

Time for a blog

Thanks for being patient with our blog, we just needed a little time to get our “news feed” loaded onto our site.   Along with posting a few short descriptions about what’s happening on facebook/twitter, I hope to describe things in more detail here.  Things like processes about getting the brewery up and going, events, news [...]