About a week ago, I got a chance to do something I thought I never would: brewing beer at a brewery. I reviewed beers from freetail before and written about them. I’ve gotten to know Jason Davis a little over the last year or more and have always wanted to try my hand at helping out at a brewery. Learning from the professionals. I got my chance a little over a week ago.
What is John doing?
I arrived a little before 9 a.m. Jason had already started the mash, so I was a little behind. As I walked in Jason said ‘Hi, come on back’, but looked not my direction, as he was busy stirring the mash. As I walked into the brewing room and around the mash tun, he said come on up, ‘it’s you’re turn to stir’. I’ve been homebrewing for a little while, however this was going to be something very new for me. A giant leap in my brewing education.
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