As I’ve mentioned earlier, you folks have been drinking enough beer here in Maple Shade for me to convince my bosses to give me another tank.   We just installed it last week and the next day we brewed up our Anniversary Ale for our one year anniversary party on July 24th.  I shot a bunch of video of the install for anyone who’s wondering how we get something that big into the brewery.  For most of you these clips will be as boring as watching yeast multiply.  But for those of you that have a fetish for heavy equipment and construction, just click on the pictures below.  I’m pretty excited to have this fermenter, now I get to make more of those beers that take up a lot of time in the tank.  I haven’t been able to do many specialty lagers in the ‘Shade.  I just couldn’t tie a tank up for that long.  Also, as luck would have it, my only gold medal winning beers are both styles that tie tanks up for as long as 60 days!  That’s why you haven’t seen any of The Cannibal or my Saison yet. That, my friends, has been remedied.  We brewed The Cannibal a couple of weeks ago, and the Saison last week!  Look for those in a month or two.

Cheers,

Chris