BOGEDAL BREWERY
Today I was able to
visit the Bogedal Brewery in Vejle, Denmark again ,I don't know if you are
familiar with the beers from this brewery. It was a fascinating
visit because even though this is not production season I was able to find out
a lot This is a "free gravity" whereby the whole process is done by
gravity especially all the filtering, as the beer goes through the process each
individual part is lifted by hand pulleys so that it can drain/filter then
lowered"until it gets to the next stage and it is an open vat fermentation
which is why this time of year is not production time each is a
"one off" batch so as the tanks are two hundred litres each batch is not much more than
three hundred champagne bottle batch each one numbered- Kasper the brewer is
becoming interested in "old barleys" This is sourcing grains before
they where modified some registered and recorded as far back as 1848/49 I
became a bit bogged down with this and feel I might be scrambling up some of
the details. Once he has found them he will try and grow what he can himself
and what he cant do he will contract out. He and his family are very self
sufficient and live, three generation, in a beautiful bit of farming country in
what was a dairy houses barns stables the lot converted in part to his
brewery
Anyhow the upshot is
that I am now going to have to carry two bottles of extremely expensive beer
around for the next four weeks. That is not all though I am
going to have to find a reason to drink the stuff.
While there are
dozens of breweries to visit I don't know how many I can practically get to
though if I can get one more in it will be the Handbryggeriat in
Norway and I should be able to get to the Mikkellor bar in Copenhagen
BREWERY IN A COW SHED
WHIMSICAL BULL SKULL KETTLE
ALL DONE WITH PULLEYS
HIPPY BREWER
GROW YOUR OWN
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