St. Louis Brews

BeerGuy · Last edited by BeerGuy on Thu May 08, 2008 8:56 am; edited 1 time in total

Here are some select photos from Augie's Rye Pale Ale brew today at O'Fallon Brewery for the Heritage Festival. The brew went amazingly well. I think we netted just over 16 barrels of a mighty good beer. In addition to Augie, myself and the guys from O'Fallon Brewery, Mark Naski and Gary Burke made an appearance as well.

Sorry about all of the dust halos in some of the shots. As you can imagine, it's a dusty atmosphere in a brewery!

Augie, Dave, Brian, etc., I will get you all CD's of all of these pics, so don't think you need to save these size-reduced versions.

Augie starts the milling process at 7:30AM.

Augies new brewing system...at least for the day.

Doughing in. (note grain going into hydrator) Ahh, steamy!...good for the skin!

Brewmaster Brian Owens supervising Augie in mash mixer mode.

The unglamorous job of raking the spent grain out of the mash tun.

Augie drawing off some yeast from a fermenter of 5 Day IPA. How many yeast cells are in a 5 gallon bucket? Shocked

Big smile as the first Simcoe hop addition goes in. Cha-ching, cha-ching!

The ultra sophisticated yeast dosing technique at O'Fallon Brewery. Wink

(L to R) Brian Owens, August Altenbaumer and Dave Johnson.
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Benjamin R · Joined: 15 Jan 2007 Posts: 628

That is awesome!

drewseslu · Joined: 13 Jan 2007 Posts: 233

Simcoe? Rye? Augie, that's pure genius.
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JE · Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 943 Location: Lemay, MO

That's some sweet stuff!! Wish I could have been there, but alas...I was at work...which kind of reminds me of the cleaning of the mash tun!! Laughing

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ericburnley · Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 280 Location: Eureka

Awesome pics, thanks for sharing them! Can't wait to taste it.

JJJ · Joined: 22 Jan 2007 Posts: 174 Location: St. Louis

That is way too cool!!!

Augie is THE MAN Exclamation

StLBeer · Joined: 09 Apr 2007 Posts: 571 Location: Fenton

That is called 'living the dream'!!

at least my dream....
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Serving - Apfelwein #1, #2, Hoegarrden Clone, Am. Wheat Ale, Berliner Weisse, and commerical samples...
Primary - Rye Twist IPA
On Deck - Leffe Clone
In the hole - ???

BeerGuy · Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 8:55 am Post subject:

Here's an article that was on the front page of the Food Section of yesterday's St. Charles Journal. More great press for Augie and the club. Hey, recognize that picture from anywhere?

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mikesweeney · Joined: 08 Sep 2007 Posts: 79

Here's a link to the web version of the article.

http://suburbanjournals.stltoday.com/articles/2008/05/08/food_and_home/sj2tn20080506-0507food-beeraugie0.ii1.txt

HarvInSTL · Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Posts: 878 Location: Columbia, MO

And just in case you want to taste some before the Heritage Festival head on down to Ciceros. They tapped their kegs last night!

And what I feel should be the new tag line.

"Augie Beer, suck it bitches!"

BeerGuy · Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 11:28 am Post subject:

StLBeer · Joined: 09 Apr 2007 Posts: 571 Location: Fenton

This is great coverage! I wish I had some of this beer on tap.... Razz

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Serving - Apfelwein #1, #2, Hoegarrden Clone, Am. Wheat Ale, Berliner Weisse, and commerical samples...
Primary - Rye Twist IPA
On Deck - Leffe Clone
In the hole - ???

OldTree · Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 331 Location: South County