Brilliant silver tanks gleamed Tuesday morning as they were
carefully maneuvered into place inside the Iron Rail Brewing Co., the
next step in readying the restaurant brewery for a mid-November opening.beer brewing equipment
Things are going well. Construction is rocking and rolling,” said Thad
Halstead, marketing director for AIM Strategies, one of the brewery’s
investors.
The restaurant and brewery will open in the former Por’e Richards and
Kansan Grill location, 705 S. Kansas Ave. Topeka businessmen Brent Boles
and Cody Foster partnered with Mike Babb, a native Topekan who owns
Babb Brothers BBQ & Blues in Dallas, on the venture.Don King, Iron
Rail’s brewmaster, is already working to create what will be the
brewery’s signature beers.
Brite serving tanks, which King described as giant kegs,” were brought
in, as were fermenters and hot and cold liquor tanks. After fermenting
in one tank, the beer is moved to a brite tank for carbonation,
filtering and chilling. The hot liquor tanks serve as a giant hot water
heater, and the cold liquor tank stores cold water, King said.
The brewing system is a 15-barrel system, and a tank will hold about 465
gallons of beer, King said.King, a software engineer who is quick to
say that his brewmaster career is a hobby dream come true,” said he has
been experimenting with flavors and styles for Iron Rail beers.
I’m in the process of prototyping, more than anything,” he said, adding
that he brews 5-gallon batches, then takes them to AIM Strategies and
to Foster and Boles to try.He takes the feedback and works toward
recipes that will become Iron Rail’s flagship brews.
King said he expects to have those recipes in place by the end of
October, but there will always be the challenge of creating recipes for
seasonal beers.
The real key is to figure out what your drinking public would like to
drink as well, and I think that’s always a challenge,” King said.
Because the fact of the matter is, people in the Northeast or even in
the South and the West Coast don’t necessarily have the same taste or
wants that we want in craft beer.”
Topeka’s becoming very sophisticated with the craft beer,” he added.
The new breweries, you’ve got Blind Tiger, the grandfather of beer,
then with Norsemen and Happy Basset lining up — it’s like Topeka is
really becoming a place that knows its craft beer, and they love it and
they expect high quality.”
Chinese official urges win-win cooperation
Iron Rail Brewing gets brewing equipment
Double Groove Brewing opens in Forest Hill
Chicago could drop brewing equipment in with a crane
Equipment up for auction at closed Duel Brewing
The worst tips for winning the lottery
Bartender tipped with winning $50,000 lottery ticket
the ,and ,a ,in ,to ,is ,in the ,king said ,craft beer ,iron rail ,beer ”
درباره این سایت