29thfloor
Well-Known Member
I was just reading an article about how Victory is stopping production of Old Horizontal barley wine until they can expand to a bigger location. This was the reason given:
Its very time consuming to produce since we can only take the first runnings of our wort, he said.
Does that mean they only use the first runnings on all their beers? And this would require more than that so it takes too long and ties up the equipment for too long? Would that mean that they are basically doing no sparge?
Sorry if this is a dumb question but that explanation just confused me.
Here's a link to the article:
http://www.brewbound.com/news/2011/victory-brewing-up-40-percent-in-2011
Its very time consuming to produce since we can only take the first runnings of our wort, he said.
Does that mean they only use the first runnings on all their beers? And this would require more than that so it takes too long and ties up the equipment for too long? Would that mean that they are basically doing no sparge?
Sorry if this is a dumb question but that explanation just confused me.
Here's a link to the article:
http://www.brewbound.com/news/2011/victory-brewing-up-40-percent-in-2011