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Sahale Pale Ale

On tap: Sahale Pale ale! Yes, our first beer. Sahale mountain is an unexceptional mountain seated in one of the most remarkable areas in the Cascades. Upon arriving at the trailhead, one comment was “have you ever seen a trailhead as gorgeous as this one” referring to the Cascade Pass TH, and that was before [...]

conicals

Homebrewers use carboys as their main fermenters.  This works nicely in that they are cheep and functional, even if they are a little extra work.  unfortunately they are not scalable and you need to work against gravity to move beer to and (more importantly) from them.  To get around this, the industry uses conical fermenters, [...]

Hot room

I just wrote about refrigeration, and hopefully that is under control with the new freezer (controlled to cool to our specific temperature).  But more importantly, the little yeasties that ferment the beer and make 1) ethanol and 2) their favorite byproducts, require specific temperatures.  We hadn’t appreciated how cold it got in the brewery and [...]

New (to us) chest freezer and food banks

So it’s been a while since we’ve written. We’ve been spending our time troubleshooting and fixing things instead of writing about it. One extremely important thing in the brewery is temperature control. This is true for both fermentation and serving/conditioning. Taking care of the latter is the easiest since all you really need is a [...]