Bottling Beer At SOB
Aug 25, 2010
Bottling beer at SOB
I had the distinct pleasurable opportunity to get to be a volunteer bottler at Southern Oregon Brewing last week. What a great way to get out from computer work and meet (more) fun beer people.
SOB is already a familiar brewery to me and the people there are friends. They’ve been good to WEB – we had a monthly meet up there where we featured their beers and paired them with cheeses. Mmmmmmmm! So getting to participate at the brewery in a process I don’t know much about was very welcome.
Acacia, Larry’s intern at SSBC, and I headed over around 830 am last Thursday. She’d done it before so was a helpful colleague to have there. There were 4 other volunteers in addition to Scott, Brewer, and the Green Bottling team – Jack, Gavin, and Mike.
Lee and Acacia on the line at SOB
It’s a pretty straightforward process, really, with some very specific equipment customized to take on the road to service breweries in bottling their beers. What a great solution!
Grossly Oversimplified: Beer ready in tanks, equipment set up, bottles loaded, filled, packed into boxes, palleted, and stored. And of course, enjoyed at their end point of some one’s mouth down the road.
Bottling and canning lines are an investment that – when it’s right – are smart. It’s another smart way to serve the breweries and end enthusiasts per beer by the bottle.
Green Bottling truck
SOB bottles 22 ounce bottles and we ended up helping that luscious beer into those bombers for the better part of the day. They’d also bottled the night before (Nice Rack IPA). Thursday we bottled Pin-up Porter, Gold Digger, and Woodshed Red.
Scott already knows my hand is the air for future bottling. Can’t wait! The refreshing beers on-site and camaraderie that is so intrinsic to the craft beer community was in perfect form that day. Thanks to Scott, Tom, Jack, Gavin, Mike, Acacia, Lee, Greg, Jeff, and Buddy – what a fabulously beery day!
Tags: bottling beer, bottling process, Green Bottling, Southern Oregon Brewing
August 27th, 2010 at 9:29 pm
Can’t wait to bottle with y’all soon! Let me know Ginger.