Charlie adds a charge of hops. Only whole hops are used at Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.
- Charlie adds a charge of hops. Only whole hops are used at Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.
- A thoughtful gaze into the pilot scale kettles, each 200 barrel batch sized. Formerly the main production brewhouse now used for small batch brewing.
- Hops whirling boil in kettle.
- Charlie & Ken idling standing but minds whirling.
- Luscious hops about to be added.
- An old German brewhouse converted for American brewing, Ken points to a few features while telling hair raising stories of original batches brewed on the system, over a decade ago.
- An entry-eyed view of busy busy in the small batch brewhouse.
- One of more than a dozen of SN's famed "torpedoes" specially designed to recirculate aging beer slowly through a hop jammed stainless steel configuration.
- Head brewer, Steve Dressler opens samples of test brews and hop sniffing.
- When beer is poured a crowd quickly gathers. Brewery and Lab staff seek a taste of various test brews as we make final decisions: yeast, hops, blends, pitchback; all in a days work and a year's worth of planning.
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