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On Friday we had some minor flooding in our cellar due to the storm. The water got about an inch or two high and left a layer of silt behind. So instead of brewing that day, we spent the whole day cleaning both cellars. This involved moving all the kegs out of the cellar into the fermentation room, and then moving them back again after we finished cleaning the cellar. This is something we do every year, but usually in the winter, when there are not so many damn kegs! We must have had nearly a hundred kegs crammed in the cellar!

This is something has happened more seriously in the past. The water backs up on the ramp leading down into the cellar and forces itself in underneath the cellar doors. We are planning on putting a roof of some sort over the ramp when we expand the brewery. That should solve the problem.

So since then we I have been trying to play catch-up to get us back on the brewing schedule. We need to have lots of beer in stock to get us through the next month, our busiest time of the year.

The Warsh Pail Ale is selling faster than expected. We expect to be completely out of it by the start of next week. In retrospect, we should have made another batch. But there was no way to tell just how fast it would move. There will be a gap of about a week inbetween the end of the Pail Ale and the release of the Oktoberfest on September 15th. I am reserving the last 1/6th bbl of the Warsh Pail Ale for the Iowa City Brewfest on September 18th, so that will be the last chance to try it until next year!