Briess Malting

For class today, we drove up to Chilton, Wisconsin to get a tour of the Briess malting facility. Unfortunately they would not allow us to take any pictures during the tour, so this post will be short because it is difficult to describe everything without some pictures. The tour was really cool, especially since the building is over 100 years old and they still use a lot of old equipment. Which does make me wonder about the whole "no pictures" thing, I understand protecting your businesses proprietary information, but there wasn't any new earth-shattering technology being used. I mean, some of the grain bins were made out of a bunch of stacked 2 x 6's. Since I have no pictures, you can just trust me that it was pretty sweet. At one point in the day I felt like a cow or something because I had eaten so much barley. Strange as this may sound, some of the specialty malted barley is actually pretty tasty. Besides that, the thing that stuck out most in my mind, keystone light for 35 cents in the break room vending machine, no joke.