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brewery wholesale side to brewer supply group now brewcraft just wholesales to homebrew shops brewcraft just moved into a new warehouse in august and a floating manager from out of town ginny has been there to help with the transition ginny s husband rob was visiting so ginny rob and jon i went to the mcmennamin s edgefield complex for dinner at the black rabbit restaurant if you ve never been to a mcmennamin s establishment you re in for a visual treat the mcmennamin brothers employ a whole cadre of artists to embellish to their hearts content as we waited to be seated i glanced up and noticed this sprite peering down at me from a water pipe elbow up near the ceiling if you go there and want to see it stand at the entrance to the black rabbit restaurant turn around and look back down the hallway and look up to your right rob was quite impressed with edgefield as most visitors are i often describe it as disneyland for beer drinkers not only is it visually strange and fantastic there s also a brewery a winery and a distillery on site a movie theatre where you can sip beer while you watch and many small and unique pubs taverns cafes and restaurants so you can take your pick of where you want to imbibe then it was back to the apartment that jon has been staying in since he started his new job we left big buddy and the astro van parked at brewcraft tonight posted by teri fahrendorf at 9 42 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday october 29 2007 a visit to barley brown s brewpub the only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose william cowper october 17 slept in till 9 00 or so penny made me tea and toast while i took a shower she gifted me a cute little basket of homegrown potatoes from her garden including a mutant russet with three appendages it was cold windy and wet out but we ran out to the brewery equipment boneyard in her driveway so i could assess the equipment that came with her new 4 bbl unitank fermenters idaho has more mormons per capita than utah and penny said having a 12 foot or so tall copper combi tank in her driveway had worked well to keep her neighborhood relatively beer friendly the combi tank was bizzare the top half was 2 3 liquor back and 1 3 mash tun divided like pie pieces the bottom half was the kettle i m not sure how you could add hops since you couldn t open the side manway on the kettle without dumping boiling wort all over yourself it s a steam system and penny currently doesn t run steam i wasn t too sure about that piece i asked penny if she could crane it into place on her brewery roof and shine spotlights on it so folks would see it like a beacon from the freeway the heat exchanger and small plate and frame filter showed much more promise i recommended getting the heat exchanger cleaned and set up first so she could reduce her lengthy brew day by two more hours then i took off west toward oregon a lot of southern idaho is relatively flat but the section of idaho and oregon between boise and baker city has huge rolling hills i drove beneath the storm clouds and oregon loomed sunny in the distance this part of highway 84 is famous for wild horses most of them are dark brown with black mane and tail and those are the wild horses i ve seen before i saw two mottled lighter colored horses among the dark ones today you can usually tell the wild horses because they stand together often head to tail as if they are looking out for cougar or other predators tame horses usually graze alone either unaware or unconcerned about predators that may be lurking i saw what looked like several wild herds on my drive today ah oregon the sun shines brighter the air smells fresher the music swells okay no music since colorado as jon broke my radio antenna while trying to fix it however the point is that oregon is awesome and i was so happy to cross the state line and see cars and trucks with oregon license plates again although now i m not so special am i since i have oregon plates too cell service has been mostly non existent since i left denver so luckily for my gps system i knew right where to go i pulled into a vacant store s lot a street back from barley brown s and went to put on a bit of makeup in the trailer as i locked the trailer barley brown s owner tyler brown walked up with a big smile on his face he said it would be best to move big buddy to his house so he rode with me the mile it took to drive there i got a full tour of tyler s house then we walked back to the brewpub barley brown s has been open for about seven years and tyler remembers my first visit back then because i was the first brewer to come and visit him baker city is a long way from most oregon cities in fact the nearest large airport is in boise idaho a lot of oregon brewers didn t realize that baker city had a brewery for a long time it didn t help that the oregon brewers guild of which barley brown s is a member put their blow up map of portland right over the eastern part of the oregon map effectively covering up baker city and literally knocking barley brown s right off the map tyler s parents used to run a mexican restaurant at this location but when a real mexican family came to town and opened a restaurant that was it for the browns mexican place tyler still serves the old chicken fajitas recipe and in fact the mexican family comes in and orders it almost every sunday telling tyler your chicken fajitas are better than ours when the family s mexican restaurant went under tyler a homebrewer convinced his parents to sell him the restaurant so he could open a brewpub he contacted tank manufacturers but jv northwest wouldn t even give him a quote saying baker city is too small you ll never make it that spooked tyler enough to downgrade his equipment expectations from a 7 bbl system to a 4 bbl system elliot bay manufactured the brewing equipment and tyler has proven he s no flash in the pan he s limited by his small equipment now and wishes he d followed through on his original intention to buy a 7 barrel system he s got a lot of fans in boise and the distributors there want his beer i told him if you upgrade i m pretty sure penny pink would be interested in your brewhouse it s been fun for me to connect people throughout my trip several people have told me that what i am doing is cross pollinating the industry the funny thing is that teresa my given name teri is short for teresa is greek for little harvester and somebody once told me that the little harvester is a bee so i m a bee cross pollinating the brewing industry i like that tyler keeps the business in perspective to his family life by only opening for dinner barley brown s hours are 4 00 10 00 pm having one shift makes the busy restaurant easier to manage tyler s brewer shawn kelso has a day job across the street at the paint store so pretty much everybody works nights here shawn was in the middle of his work night and joined us for photos and beers at the top of this page shawn l and tyler r stand in front of the blue tape wall because a lot of the brewery photos for this blog have been taken with everybody lining up on the brewhouse steps i thought it would be funny if tyler and shawn lined up on their brewhouse steps too as you can see in the photo at right they only have two steps the mash tun is in front of them and the kettle is behind them you can see the second wall of blue tape behind them what are those stripes of blue tape see photo below left for a close up at the beginning when tyler was both brewing and running the restaurant he wanted to keep track of each beer and which tank it was in so he wrote the beer name the date and the starting gravity on a piece of blue tape and stuck it on the fermenter when tyler transferred the beer to the bright tank he moved the piece of blue tape too once the beer had been kegged off tyler wanted to make sure that he wouldn t forget to pay excise taxes a new experience for a restaurateur so he stuck the blue tape on the wall now there are two walls with blue tape labels on them here is an example if you are trying to read the labels above the 4th label down on the right is turmoil beer brewed in 2004 and was batch number 246 it happened to be test batch 2 of that beer and had a starting gravity of 1 066 barley brown s doesn t filter its beers but they ve won a lot of fans i especially liked their whiskey brown ale which is made with rye malt and bamberg rauch malt even paul shipman of redhook stopped in and tried the beers tyler recalls paul saying i m going to call my overpaid brewmaster in seattle and tell him that a little brewer in podunk oregon is kicking his ass that cracked me up one of the signature items on tyler s food menu is the mad pasta i tried it seven years ago when i visited it s a curly pasta with chicken and alligator smothered in spicy marinara sauce you read that right alligator you re wondering where a restaurant in eastern oregon would source alligator meat tyler tells an interesting story about that there are natural geothermal springs that feed a few creeks in idaho the water is so warm that they farm raise trout there and the trout grow super fast unfortunately the trout create a lot of refuse so somebody came up with the bright idea that alligators could live in the warm water so they put alligators in the geothermal creeks to eat the trout refuse the idea was to sell the alligator skin for leather goods the meat is a small byproduct so tyler is buying farm raised alligator meat from idaho for 14 99 a pound wholesale and his customers love it i tried it it has the texture of chicken with a fishy flavor since i d already tried the mad pasta before i had the chicken fajitas tonight they were good after a full round of beers and a full tour of the brewery tyler gave me a lift back to his house i planned to sleep in my trailer because they have a dog and i m semi allergic but it was so dang cold out i was certain my battery would go dead in the night and therefore my mattress pad heater and that i d move inside anyway therefore i slept in the spacious basement guest room that tyler offered me he said their old dog never went down there anyway posted by teri fahrendorf at 9 08 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday october 26 2007 pink boots at uinta and at portneuf valley hide not your talents they for use were made what use is a sundial in the shade benjamin franklin october 16 today was an insanely long day lots of things contributed to that one was that my one day delay out of denver meant i could only spend two hours at uinta another was that today was the only day that penny pink would be brewing at portneuf valley brewery and she wanted me to help her troubleshoot beer flavors that might be attributed to production and equipment changes another thing was that i really wanted to get home to see my honey i met uinta s president sales operations manager owner partner steve kuftinec at 8 30 am steve gave me a tour and i commented that uinta had one of the best laid out brewery buildings that i had seen the production process went counter clockwise and everything was completely logical steve told me that the building had been purpose built for uinta when uinta opened their current location they only planned to have a tasting room however the first day the taproom opened 40 people showed up at the door expecting a brewpub and wanting to order lunch how can you say no to that kind of business uinta quickly installed a kitchen and now they are open for soup and sandwichs for lunch and early dinner steve showed me the brewery offices upstairs and commented that ceo will hamill was the mastermind genius that helped build uinta from the new kid on the block to its current place as the largest craft brewery in utah steve introduced me to cellarman lab qc guy eric baumann who was in the middle of a de filter production manager kevin ely who was busy planning the brew schedule and russ webster i m not sure who has the title brewmaster but i think kevin has it steve told me that brewer james smith was looking forward to my visit i loved the title on his business card it said james smith passionate brewer i brewed with james briefly then we sat in a quiet office where he could keep an eye on the brewhouse through the window and we talked shop for awhile james still homebrews because uinta is a production brewery and not a brewpub so there s not much room for experimentation at work he s got some beer in a wooden barrel at home and he wants to do more barrel aging i told him about the crazy fascinating lactic and brettanomyces beers i ve tasted on my trip and we talked about whiskey distilling which james is also interested in the interesting thing about james passions is that he was raised mormon he said his mom had a little trouble with the brewing at first she asked him you don t drink much do you honey james said some mormons didn t like that he was a brewers and others thought it was interesting all levels of reactions just like the rest of life i really had a great time with james and wished i could have stayed longer but duty and the road were calling me steve gifted me a mixed six pack on my way out the door in the photo at the top of this page l to r zigzagging up and down teri james eric kevin will and russ steve took the photo rather than be in it he claimed he had a face made for radio i took the photo at left of some autumn tinged aspen trees in idaho as i zipped up hwy 15 utah had lots of mesas which are flat lopped off high areas in the high desert i drove nearly straight north to pocatello idaho penny pink is the brewmistress and owner of portneuf valley brewing company there in the photo below penny and i are standing in front of her three vessel brewhouse and one of her 2 barrel fermenters penny prefers the title brewmistress over brewmaster she says it s just one more thing to throw em off guard along with her name pink and height taller than me if you ve read her entertaining posts on the brewers forum then you know how funny she is penny must be one stubborn woman she just won t quit no matter how hard it gets that sense of humor comes in handy here she s got the smallest commercial brewing system that i visited on this trip her batch size is 2 to 4 barrels depending on the fermenter and it takes her about 11 hours to brew it that amount of time was just recently lowered from 14 hours by an equipment upgrade i had plenty of time while driving to ponder how brewing could take that long and i couldn t quite figure it out as i watched penny s wort take about three hours to get to a boil and then take about three hours to cool down and run off to the fermenter ah ha i see now if you are fighting your equipment you could be in for a verrryyy looonnnnggggg day we discussed various things penny could try i checked emails during the run off maybe we 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