workin' "pro"

[TheWeeb]

First full day as assistant brewer for Renegade, the production brewery I have an interest in.

This is a new thing, compared to home brewing, with the 700 lbs of grain, feeding it into the mill, moving it to the mash tun, then cleaning it all out afterward.

Much work. Much fun.

 

[Fencemaker]

Fan-freakin'-tastic! The sweat shows the love. Congrats!

 

[Wakadaka]

Sounds like a fun place to work.

 

[TheWeeb]

a peek inside the boil kettle (15 BBL) after the first hop addition. Magic.

 

[jiggs_casey]

Very cool... Kinda makes me want to see if there's a 'volunteer' day somewhere close.

 

[TheWeeb]

Fan-freakin'-tastic! The sweat shows the love. Congrats!

the love, yes, and the fact that it was Denver's hottest day of the year to date, at 99 degrees

 

[moti_mo]

Interesting. I live in Denver and hadn't heard of Renegade. I'll have to check it out.

 

[Vance71975]

Awesome man! Live the DREAM dude live the DREAM!:rockin:

 

[Fetus]

Interesting. I live in Denver and hadn't heard of Renegade. I'll have to check it out.

They just opened about a week ago.

 

[ChillWill]

I've worked in 3 brewerys now (volunteering to try and score a job). It's good honest, hard work and I love it. Fingers crossed a job opens up at one of them for me!

 

[jdlev]

Aren't you guys upgrading to a 60bbl system soon...I think we just toured renegade about 3-4 weeks ago..

 

[TheWeeb]

Renegade is at 9th and Santa Fe, tasting room opens at 2pm Tuesday - Sunday. Brewmaster is Rick Abitol, who came out of the Foam on the Range homebrew club seven years ago and went pro with the Park Meadows Rock Bottom up until this year. The soft opening was a week ago with four taps, down to two now as the first week was really successful and with three fermentors it will take another week or two to fill out the inventory. The one we brewed yesterday will be a hopped-up red, similar to the Fire Chief ale if anyone has had that one from RB but with more aromatic dry hops. I am a small investor in the operation, and since presently unemployed, have volunteered to help out whenever needed. Yes, I would really like to work there full time and get paid for it! Here is the tasting room, sorry for the spotty pic, much grain dust on the camera. The building was once a Dr. Pepper bottling plant.

 

[trevor_b]

That is awesome!

 

[Fetus]

I stopped in there on Thursday of last week. The Rye IPA is tasty. A friend of mine struck up a conversation with one of the people working there, and was told that they'll be looking to hire another brewer if business picks up enough.

I really like the place. It's in a decent area, and is really nice and comfortable on the inside. Nice view of their shiny stainless tanks from the bar.