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donosborn: Me with Jerry, an assistant kitchen manager at TPB.
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donosborn: Discussing the Big Brown Ale recipe.
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donosborn: getting tri clamp instructions from Allyson.
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donosborn: my first tri clamp. :)
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donosborn: adding water to the mash tun.
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donosborn: stirring the mash.
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donosborn: trying to screw on the fly sparge arm.
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donosborn: brown ale wort collects in brew kettle.
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donosborn: hanging out during the brew day.
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donosborn: checking the gravity.
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donosborn: cleaning out the candi syrup bucket and adding that back in.
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donosborn: Jerry made us a yummy pizza for lunch.
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donosborn: adding hops.
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donosborn: I wasn't keen on dumping from a 5 gallon carboy of yeast to such a small hole so she did it.
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donosborn: cleaning out the brew kettle.
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donosborn: Aiming for 1.074. After calibrating this to 60 deg it would be 1.073.
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donosborn: Vikre flight. A very small amt of each drink, maybe 1/2 oz.
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donosborn: Vikre bar.
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donosborn: Jerry at Vikre.
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donosborn: Cool posters of what goes in their different gins.
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donosborn: floor drain cover at Vikre.
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donosborn: smoked fish at a smokehouse near Vikre in Duluth. I got some salamon and whitefish.
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donosborn: Celebrated homebrewing by cracking possibly my last 2002 Imperial Stout.
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donosborn: Nice sky on the drive home the next day.
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donosborn: Big & Bold on the chalkboard.
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donosborn: My first taste.
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donosborn: The Big & Bold in the menu.
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donosborn: Roasted cauliflower pizza (left) and pepperoni (right).
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donosborn: Thumbs up.
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donosborn: The growlers I got to take.