How Beer is Made

English: Photographic reportage made by Alan Levine on January 27th, 2013. "A day watching the process as Steve brews a new stour at THAT Brewery in Pine Arizona."

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  If you are at a bar in Phoenix lucky enough to be tapping this, try it!
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  Stand Back, We Are Brewing
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  It's Time to Make Beer!
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  Dark Grain for the Stout
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  Bottom of the mash container; Steve fabricated it out of an old water storage tank, apparently located in Pahrump, NV.
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  I highly recommend the AZ Trail Ale, official beer of the Arizona Trail.
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  A Fermenters Eye View of the World
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  Fill to the Top
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  Let's Turn on the Beer!
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  One of 6 (?) 50 pound bags of grain going into today's beer.
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  Gotta have the good stuff.
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  The Workhorse Grain
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  Malt Meets Hot Water
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  Steve gets a workout pouring the grain in the tank.
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  Grain in Motion
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  It's a Dark Batch
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  Steve uses the official mixing tool, wooden oar, to mix the 300 lbs of grain in the mash tank.
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  Gotta Mix it Up
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  And Even MORE Grain
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  Dumping in the Bags
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  How Beer is Made
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  How Beer is Made
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  Thick Hoses for Hot Beer
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  A Man and His Beer Hose
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  The Official Mixing Oar
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  Good pH Reading
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  Steve Explains the pH Readings
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  Getting the pH Reading
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  A Tad Acid Needed to Adjust pH
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  Keeping a record of today's process, it's a first time brew for the stout Steve is making today.
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  I Forgot What This Is But It Looks Cool
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  Hooking in Water for the Tank
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  Making Connections
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  Connecting the Pump
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  One More Connection
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  Hooking in the Big Hose
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  Making the Angle
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  And Another Connection
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  Steve is Focused
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  Tamara Explains the Process
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  I Think It Looks Like a Musical Note
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  Now It Has to Warm For an Hour+
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  Sparging Supply Line
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  Let Me Tell You About Sparging
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  A Delicate Process
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  You gotta get the beer cold, this is something that ams from a dairy farm.
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  Beer Flows Here
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  Checking the Levels in the Big Tank
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  The Work Never Pauses
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  Hoses, Clamps, Rings, Elbows
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  Sparging Patterns
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  One Drop Ready To Roll
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  Hooking Up The Pump
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  Brew Man in Motion
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  Patterns in the Mash
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  It's All Grainy
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  The Beer Doctor
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  Setting the Chiller Flow
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  Here Comes Some Wort!
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  Pouring the Bottom Into The Top
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  Mash Check. Must Check.
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  The Batch For Sctochies
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  Right From the Tank?
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  If you are at the brewery on a brew day, you might get to sample a Hot Scotchy- a mix of scotch and the first sweet pour from the bottom of the mash tank.
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  A Round of Hot Stotchies
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  The Sparging Process
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  Let it be Sparging
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  Turning the Sparging Line
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  The Beermakers Toast a Hot Scotchy
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  It's Not Quite Beer Yet
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  2013-365-27 The Sparging Reaction
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  What Comes Out of the Mash
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  Always Attentive to the Beer
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  It's Not Beer Yet
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  More Sparging Going On
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• Dogs 'n "tTucks 'n Beer
  Dogs 'n "tTucks 'n Beer
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  Open as in Beer
• Only 100 Miles from Phoenix
  Only 100 Miles from Phoenix
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  Art By Diane outside THAT Brewery
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  Art By Diane outside THAT Brewery
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  Art By Diane outside THAT Brewery
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  You Are THAT Far from THAT Brewery
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  Art By Diane outside THAT Brewery
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  Art By Diane outside THAT Brewery
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  After the mash tank is drawn.
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  Gold At The Bottom
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  Scooping Out the Left Overs
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  This Is The Outcome
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  THAT's What It's About
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  Gunk Off The Top
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  Paul Is the Grain Scooper
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  Checking the Brew
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  Mmmm Fish Tacos
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  A Toast to the Beer Maker
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  Bottom of the Mash
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  THAT Beer is Smokin'
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  Concentrated Hops
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  Checking the Specific Gravity
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  Time for the Hops
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  Stand Back, The Hops Are Going In
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  The grain that is left is good for compost and feeding livestock. When the brewing process is done, it is scooped out into buckets and put outside for local ranchers and farmers.
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  The grain that is left is good for compost and feeding livestock. When the brewing process is done, it is scooped out into buckets and put outside for local ranchers and farmers.