Brookston Beer Bulletin

Jay R. Brooks on Beer

  • Home
  • About
  • Editorial
  • Birthdays
  • Art & Beer

Socialize

  • Dribbble
  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Flickr
  • GitHub
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
Powered by Head Quarters Built on WordPress

Russian River’s First Brew Day, Part 1

May 9, 2008

 

On May 9, 2008, Russian River Brewing began brewing in their new production brewery, located just a couple of miles from their brewpub, also in Santa Rosa, California. I was on hand that morning during the mash-in. Here are some photos of the new brewery.

The exterior of the new brewery from the parking lot.

The barrels sitting expectantly in the parking lot, filled with possibilities and waiting to be filled with beer.

Around the side, which when construction is completed will be the main entrance.

The trailer of spent grain from the first batch done in the middle of the previous night.

The spent grain of Batch 001, the first half of a brew of Consecration.

I don’t know exactly what this is, but I liked the look of it.

Pallets of 16 oz. bottles, waiting to be filled with Pliny the Elder, and others. The first batch of Pliny the Elder should be brewed on Sunday, May 11, assuming all goes well with the prior brews. That would mean bottling would take place toward the end of the first week of June.

Transferring the grain for the next brew.

This tube takes the malt into the brewery.

And into this silo, ready for the brew kettle.

Vinnie and James work on a last minute pump problem.

More fermenters, ready to be filled.

The first batch of beer was fermenting in this tank.

Bubbles from the fermenting Consecration beer.

Vic Krajl, from The Bistro, made hamburgers for everybody on a new grill he bought for the brewery as a housewarming gift, or would that be a brewerywarming gift?
 

Continue on to Part 2: The Mash-In

 

Find Something

Northern California Breweries

Please consider purchasing my latest book, California Breweries North, available from Amazon, or ask for it at your local bookstore.

Beer Bulletin Email

Enter your email address to receive daily digests:

Recent Comments

  • Susan Appel on Historic Beer Birthday: John Roehm
  • S. Pavelka on Beer Birthday: Rich Norgrove
  • Celebrating Texas History With Alamo Beer: An Iconic Taste Of The Lone Star State – SanctuaryBrewCo on Fictional Beer Brands
  • Neal Carey on Historic Beer Birthday: Anton Zahm
  • Experience The Taste Of Duff Beer: Limited-Edition Cans And Home Brewing Kits – SanctuaryBrewCo on Fictional Beer Brands

Recent Posts

  • Beer Birthday: Peter Catizone February 3, 2023
  • Historic Beer Birthday: Julius Stroh February 3, 2023
  • Beer In Ads #4340: Miss Rheingold 1955 Raising The Flags February 2, 2023
  • Historic Beer Birthday: Anton Schwarz February 2, 2023
  • Beer Birthday: Luke Nicholas February 2, 2023

Tag Cloud

Advertising Anheuser-Busch Announcements Bay Area Belgium Brewers Association Brewing Equipment Budweiser Business California Christmas Europe France Germany Guinness Health & Beer History Holidays Hops Humor Infographics Kegs Law Mainstream Coverage Miller Brewing Northern California Pabst Packaging Patent Pennsylvania Press Release Prohibitionists Rheingold San Francisco Schlitz Science Science of Brewing Sports Statistics The Netherlands UK Uncategorized United States Video Washington

The Sessions

session_logo_all_text_1500

Next Session: Dec. 7, 2018
#142: One More for the Road
Previous Sessions
  • #141: Future of Beer Blogging
  • #140: Pivo
  • #139: Beer & the Good Life
  • #138: The Good in Wood
  • #137: German Wheat
Archive, History & Hosting

Typology Tuesday

Typology-png
Next Typology:
On or Before March 29, 2016
#3: Irish-Style Dry Stout
Previous Typologies
  • #2: Bock Feb. 2016
  • #1: Barley Wine Jan. 2016
Archive & History

This month’s posts

February 2023
S M T W T F S
 1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728  
« Jan    

BBB Archives