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The Brewmeisters visit Yard's Brewery in Philadelphia!

Brewmeisters at Yards

Yard's mash tuns.

Mash tuns at Yards

Yard's fermentation tanks.

Fermentation tanks

More fermentation tanks at Yard's.

Fermentation tanks

The kegging machine.

Kegging

Lots of bottles.

Bottling

Specialty beer aging in casks at Yard's.

Beer ages at Yards

Mashing grains to convert the starches into fermentable sugars.

Mashing grains

Lautering - which means draining the sweet wort from the mash.

Lautering

Ted testing the gravity to see how much fermentable sugar we have extracted.

Gravity check

Boiling the wort kills off bacteria.

Boiling wort

Adding pellet hops to the boil.

Adding pellet hops to the boil

Stir it all up.

Stirring

Sanitizing 42 beer bottles at one time.

Sanitizing bottles

Siphoning beer from the carboy.

Siphoning beer

Another view of siphoning beer into the bottling bucket.

Siphoning beer 2

Bottling the beer.

Bottling beer

Bottling the beer...one bottle at a time.

Bottling beer 2

Capping the bottles.

Capping beer bottles

That's over 2 cases of homemade beer, all capped and ready to condition.

Capped beer bottles