Crafty Ladies Brew Day at Joyride

Denver – CO

There were a few lucky Crafty Ladies who recently got the opportunity to brew a beer with Joyride Brewing .  The Crafty Ladies have been well known to brew dark, stout-like beers, but this time we’ve changed things up a bit.  This time, we got to brew a hoppy RED ale!

Since there are a lot of members, we took shifts to help our host brewery at rotating times, and working in shifts. I thought I’d help out in the morning as we prep the tanks, grain and mash in.

We organize our  644 lbs of grain.   I didn’t get a copy of the exact recipe, but there were a few Crystal varieties and darker, roasted barley grains. You know, brewer’s chex mix!

Brewing the hard way.

After lots of boiling and stirring (on Dave’s part), we got to cleaning our fermenter so we could transfer our beer to a clean vessel.

We checked in to get our degrees Plato, which was looking good and with a clean fermenter, we were ready to transfer beer.

During some of the hurry up and wait t

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