Nor Cal Kilts and Heather Beer Brewing

**Ayin McFye** · 11th April 08, 07:42 PM

Originally Posted by Alan H

These are, if I remember rightly, 20 gallon copper kettles, so we'll get a lot of beer!

Nice. I saw some 50 gallon stainless steel fermenters online for about $450 about 2 weeks ago, and now i can't find the site that i saw them on.

We usually brew about 20 gallons at a time but we use 4 buckets that are each five gallons each.

It's always nice to meet other brewers!

**CameronTaylor** · 13th April 08, 09:51 AM

Pencil me in, I'll wear some manner of kiltageness (latest on the design board - Chinese Blue).

Oh and this month's kilt/beer night is too close to my return from Ireland, couldn't get a decent airfare so I'm bumping myself and the HBC back a month (that and the model train gig was cancelled too)

CT - almost readjusted to Cali time from Dublin time

**ccga3359** · 13th April 08, 10:11 AM

Hope you don't have troubles with the revenuers.

**davedove** · 14th April 08, 12:54 PM

That sounds like an interesting project. Although I don't drink much beer, I am always interested when someone attempts to recreate a more historical formula that breaks away from the big four ingredients (water, yeast, barley, and hops). I hope it turns out well for you.

**JerseyLawyer** · 14th April 08, 01:47 PM

Originally Posted by ccga3359

Hope you don't have troubles with the revenuers.

Fortunately, since 1978 homebrewers have been exempt from excise taxes. On the Federal level, at least. States can, and some do, still ban the manufacture of alcohol of all types. See, for example, Alabama - http://www.latimes.com/news/printedi...ck=5&cset=true.

**way2fractious** · 14th April 08, 02:27 PM

The concerns expressed here about equipment costs, taxes, and other legal matters are cleared up when you realize this project is under the auspices of Devil's Canyon Brewing Company.

Originally Posted by Alan H

At the last Beer and Kilts night at the Devils Canyon Brewery both Dan the Brewer and Chris the Brewer talked to me AT LENGTH about wanting to make a kettle or two of heather beer. These guys are into it, as you know. It's been part of the business plan all along to make some ancient style beers. You should have seen Dan's eyes light up...

The owners and brewmasters are in on this project (which appears to be another of Alan H's inexhaustible ideas.

) These are the same folks who put up with the Nor-Cal Rabble on their premises each month, and who also graced us with their kilted presence at our second annual Burns Supper last January.

w2f (they also have great root beer)