The Shop - A Brewing Company

07/31/2021

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California Craft Brewers Cup - Prelims at The Shop.

Message from the Lead Judge: "Arranging prelims for IPAs, and hopefully some Stouts to wash them down with. 10AM start time and we can handle 12 judges. I'll send the invite to a few more, but I'm sending this to you first.
We just passed 1000 entries, so it would be nice to whittle down 15% or so.
Who can make it?"

Sounds like we'll be doing some IPAs & stouts - Prelims @ The Shop!

Thank you for your interest in the California Craft Brewers Cup organized by Sacramento Area Brewers Guild/CCBA, Sacramento, CA.

02/26/2021

Took the day off to sharpen my brewing skills in a four hour online class - Brewing Water Adjustments Boot Camp with John Palmer. Woohoo! Can't wait!

09/04/2020

What's behind the wall of wonder?

07/10/2020

My favorite kind of jigsaw puzzle!

07/10/2020

Some time ago I went through all my old Hot Wheel cars that I played with as a kid. I researched their worth, cataloged them and posted them for sale. I did the same with my old comic books. The proceeds purchased 2) 1/2 Barrel Conical Fermenters with built in chilling coils.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the newest addition to The Shop, the twins - Shovel & Knuckle.
(Shovel is currently not wearing a jacket, otherwise hard to tell them apart.)

06/12/2020

The (not so) great yeast freeze of 2020. Lost all of my yeast supply. Replaced the stat in the bar after the box dropped to 19 Degrees F.

05/30/2020

When the fermenters are full. I'm trying to make the best of this shelter in place phenomenon and the extra time I seem to have on my hands by going through different sections of The Shop and cleaning/organizing. I had 18 drawers that held thirty years of accumulated nuts, bolts, screws, washers, nails, studs, cotter pins, clamps, grommets, widgets, thingamabobs, doo-hickeys, chrome muffler bearings, blinker fluid - you name it! The problem - it was so disorganized I could never find what I was looking for when I needed it. I dumped each of those drawers on an old towel and sorted everything! I labeled the drawers and I threw away stuff I would never use! Yesterday, while working in The Shop, it was a pleasure to pull open one labeled drawer and find the molly screw anchor I needed. I should've done this years ago!

02/16/2020

Once again, The Shop has the honor of hosting preliminary judging sessions for the California State Fair Homebrew Competition. This year, like last, we are judging style 21A & 21B. My favorite! We must be doing something right. Here are some of the 80 entries we need to get through by end of week!

08/09/2019

Time for a fermenter upgrade - Coolstix tri-clamp set up!

05/16/2019

Two new brews preview at The Shop this week. Coronet - a Mango IPA that's fruitful and very drinkable @ 6.7% and Satellite Sebring - an Amercian Strong with a strong malt backbone that supports a Citrusy hop profile and a 7.5% ABV.