Monday, January 20, 2014

Lagunitas Brewing Company brewery





The Brewhouse


Lauter Tun Control Panel


The inside of an empty lauter tun


Brewhouse task chart



The fermentation tanks.  These are glycol cooled and have clean-in-place technology so no human need enter them, not even to clean them.


Casks for the barrel-aged program.  Beers aged in these include a coffe stout and imperial stout.

The kegging line.

The tap room's beer garden.

Saturday, December 21, 2013

Sour beers

My newest taste obsession


Monday, September 23, 2013

Northern California Homebrewer's Festival

DOZE (Winner of Best Club Booth!)


Elk Grove Brewers Club


Worts of Wisdom



Mad Zymurgists



Chico Home Brewers Club




The festival grounds (and the pouring rain!)




Other sights





Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Tidying up


Yesterday I undertook the long-postponed, and long-overdue, task of cleaning and reorganizing my "brewhouse", or as we call it around here, the beer closet.

The first step, of course, was to empty it out, and clean up the space with anti-septic wipes.

Then, I sorted through the stuff, identifying items that needed to simply be tossed out, and putting those that were to be retained together with similar items.

Two boxes of empty bottles were set aside for storage elsewhere, thus providing a lot more room in the closet.

Another useful addition was the purchase of a small, 16-drawer organizer, that'll keep me from having to dig around in the deep drawer for small parts, such as fermentation locks, rubber bungs, hose clamps, bottle caps, and so on.

It took a while, but it will make things much, much easier.