The Mash - Worth Brewing Co.

Opened in March 17, 2007, Worth Brewing Co. who are located in a small town known as Northwood, IA. They system they use is a 10 gallon Sabco system, which includes a sparge kettle, mash tun and boiling kettle, and is rounded out with a 27 gallon cylindro-conical fermenter. Then are sent to serving kegs and conditioned until tapped.

The head brewer Peter Ausenhus - BJCP judge- holds many events at the local pub, like special how-to-brew classes. They keep a staple of beers on tap and have a rotating schedule of specialty beers that are tapped on Friday's. They keep a beer schedule online so mark your calender.

Find them at:
www.worthbrewing.com

10 gallon commercial brewery?

Recently, I came across an interesting business model where the a couple started their brewery inside an existing restaurant and eventually opened their own brewery. They are called the Worth Brewing Co..

The brewery is not massive by any means, in fact breweries usually measure their output in barrels, this brewery currently measures in gallons. They brew in 10 gallon batches, which can be very labor intensive and also very good. With the brewery being so small they can whip up new recipes in a whim and rotate their tap selection very quickly.

Although they do not seem to be taking over any of the big breweries anytime soon, they are well on thier way to establishing themselves in the local area and have expansion dreams in thier near future. Good luck guys!

You can check them out at: www.worthbrewing.com

Cheers

Future beer quality in doubt?

I am not sure that the consumer really cares, but I feel that the crunch on hops and grains that brewers are facing could possibly be the beginning of the quality of beer decreasing. Of'course the large brewers will not be affected as most of them use rice and a very small amount of hops to make their beers. It is the small brewers who will be faced with financial crunches. In a few years, I believe that small companies will be forced to use other cheaper materials as a bittering agent, like chemical flavorings. I hope this is not the case and will not happen.

At NLBC , we will stick to and always be brewing beer with real ingredients and never use chemicals. Real ingredients for real beer! Stay tuned for what is on tap at the brewhouse.