Spring Weather
You have to love it. On Thursday (yesterday) it was a sweltering 100 degrees in the brewhouse, forcing me to break out my short boots for the first time this year. Today, I wore shorts, and it is a cool 50 degrees… i’m freezing! 
But that doesn’t compare to the hailstorm that woke me up this morning. Golf ball size hail hitting the roof my house was pretty exciting. I watched the show for about ten minutes at 7am. Then I went back to bed, as I didn’t need to be here until Noon, and I had only gotten home the previous night from brewing at 11pm. I’m living on brewing time now!
I know that Summer is here when we have a brewing schedule like this: Brew Thursday, Friday, start 24hr brew Sunday night, finish up monday night. Bottle Tuesday, Brew Wednesday, Brew Friday (Friday will be the first batch of Pale Ale). Yep, we are going to really busy!
I would like to introduce my new assistant brewer, Aaron Gerbo. Well he is not actually new, he started last year. Its about this time of year, that i’m grateful to have him, or I would be running around like crazy trying to get all of these tanks cleaned. He is only 24, but a very hard worker. He asks lots of questions, which is something I look for in an assistant. He is a pretty good homebrewer as well:
His other job is working at John’s Grocery, where we have planted him as a spy to sell more of our beer. So far, it has been working out very well!
We are brewing 80bbl of White Ale this week. That is what the 24hr brew is part of. The last two batches have been pretty slow runoffs, we are not sure why. We have many more batches to go and we will try to figure out how to make this beer efficiently. Or I will be here sunday night doing alot of thumb twiddling waiting for the wort to run off. Well that is what happens in this industry sometimes!