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My brewery in Kelowna

Post by MitchK » Sat Mar 03, 2018 3:55 am

Hey guys, just thought I'd let everyone know my brewery in kelowna is finally far enough along to start posting on facebook so if anyone wants to keep up with that feel free to check us out on facebook (right now there's not much to see but I promise gear and renovation pics are coming):

https://www.facebook.com/wildambitionbrewing/

I'll try to do better about staying active on here now that beer is 99% of my life again too - I may have left the maritimes but I still wear my brewnoser t shirt so I like to keep up with the Halifax scene too.

Gonna be doing the bottle conditioned saison/wild/sour/farmhouse thing though maybe not to the same extreme as stillwell brewing (I'm expecting to have to cave and brew some clean beers, non-funky berliner type sours and maybe a brett IPA - stuff that still benefits from our fermentation and bottle conditioning setup but more accessible to people who aren't giant beer nerds) at a 600L batch size (on the brewhouse, we have double size fermenters). Really stoked to be doing this in such a heavy wine producing region since it means I should be able to get piles of barrels as soon as we finish renos and can start filling them, as well as a lot of access to local fresh fruit and wine grapes to throw in our beer.

Who knows, maybe I can convince theresa to let me fly back to halifax for collabs once in a while :cheers2:

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Post by amartin » Sat Mar 03, 2018 9:09 am

Whoo! Yeah Mitch!


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Post by SFR709 » Sat Mar 03, 2018 10:33 am

Awesome stuff!


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Post by LiverDance » Sat Mar 03, 2018 1:34 pm

Congrats


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Post by MitchK » Sat Mar 03, 2018 1:54 pm

Thanks guys, and I guess I'll give you a sneak peek of a photo that hasn't made its way into a social media post yet...

In case you wondering what 250 lbs of hops looks like
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Post by RubberToe » Sat Mar 03, 2018 3:00 pm

Congrats, way to go!
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Post by LeafMan66_67 » Sat Mar 03, 2018 7:51 pm

Congrats Mitch!
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Post by elreplica » Sun Mar 04, 2018 11:18 am

MitchK wrote:
Sat Mar 03, 2018 1:54 pm
Thanks guys, and I guess I'll give you a sneak peek of a photo that hasn't made its way into a social media post yet...

In case you wondering what 250 lbs of hops looks like
Hmmmm...sure that's not BC Bud? Lol. Seriously...congrats!
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Post by MitchK » Sun Mar 04, 2018 1:06 pm

elreplica wrote:
Sun Mar 04, 2018 11:18 am
MitchK wrote:
Sat Mar 03, 2018 1:54 pm
Thanks guys, and I guess I'll give you a sneak peek of a photo that hasn't made its way into a social media post yet...

In case you wondering what 250 lbs of hops looks like
Hmmmm...sure that's not BC Bud? Lol. Seriously...congrats!

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I managed to get quite a few varieties I wasn't thinking I'd manage out of the gate too - citra, mosaic, simcoe, amarillo, wakatu, etc

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Post by toddthebeerdude » Sun Mar 04, 2018 2:44 pm

:cheers2:

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Post by Celiacbrew » Sun Mar 04, 2018 2:53 pm

Congratulations Mitch.
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Post by jacinthebox » Mon Mar 05, 2018 10:38 am

congrats...best of luck
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Post by jeffsmith » Mon Mar 05, 2018 10:50 am

Congrats!

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Post by MitchK » Wed Mar 14, 2018 10:53 pm

Sloped floor was poured yesterday!

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