Hey!
Hard to believe its been more than 2 months since I've wrote a new blog! As mentioned in the previous blog, yep time flies pretty fast!
Our brewery is in full production mode! Equipment is running great, beside some little issues we've had but life in a brewery wouldn't fun without those challenges thrown your way. Like last week our cooler compressor wasn't working right and I had to provide ice to our fermentation cooling unit which is a reservoir the cooler filled with water and a pump that pumps the water through stainless steel coil in each fermenter as it needs it. During the initial fermentation phase the temperature can go pretty high due to the heat generated by the yeast, it is very critical that the temperature is kept within a certain range otherwise we run great risk to produce off flavor in our beer jeopardizing its quality.
We had our cooling tech come in and change a filter and the compressor is back on track! No more ice needed.
We have successfully filled 2 fermenters and will be filling 2 more this coming weekend. The first fermenter of our Honey Brown Ale, our flagship,was sent to the conditioning tank over the past weekend. The flavors are right on but we missed the mark on the alcohol percentage which is 4.5% instead of 5%, it wont be much noticeable. We'll adjust in next batch :)
We also received our growlers, beside a big miss by the printer, they are beautiful! Thanks to Prescott-Russell United Counties for their great help in paying for the printing of the growlers, it means a lot to us to have this kind of support!
Fermenter #1 and #2 will be bottled in about 2 weeks. We are still waiting for the our selling license from AGCO but we don,t have any beer ready to sell yet, so the timing should be perfect!
A big thank you to everyone that have helped us so far! Special thanks to those who bought in our Ambassador / Founder program which is buying 1000$ worth of beer in advance and also our major investors who made it so easy to get our financing inline. We are so happy to have been able to build our brewery without the help of a bank but through people that believes in us and are willing to be part of it big time! THANK YOU!
Cheers!
