Troegs Brewing Company

Brewery Tours and Tastings are FREE every Sat. at 2 p.m. Here's how it works:

1. Tours start and end in the Giftshop/ Tasting Room so try to arrive 10 minutes early for a few tasty samples.
2. No appointments are necessary. Children are welcome with adult supervision.
3. Tours usually take about 30-40 minutes—unless you ask a lot of questions.
4. We can sell cases, kegs, and refill 2 liter growlers at the brewery (if you don't have a growler don't worry we sell those too). You can check out a small sample of our giftshop merchandise at www.troegs.com/giftshop.htm
5. If you're traveling a long distance, please send us an e-mail to make sure something hasn't come up to cause us to cancel tours for a particular Saturday.
6. If you're in from out of town and can't make it on a Saturday, send us an e-mail and we may be able to have you visit another time.

Private tours are $100 for up to 30 people and $5. for each additional person. Private tours must be prepaid and scheduled at least 2 weeks in advance. For more information or to schedule a tour please contact our giftshop at 717.232.1297.

Brewhouse

The brewing process begins in the brewhouse, after the malted barley has been "cracked" in the mill room, it's mixed into the mash tun with hot water and steaped for 45 minutes. The enzymes in the malted barley naturally breakdown the starches to fermentable sugars producing a sweet sugar water called "wort". The wort is then slowly rinsed from the mash bed and transferred to the Brew Kettle and vigorously boiled for 1 1/2 hours. This boiling ensures absolute purity of the wort and isomerizes the essential hop oils. The Hops are added at several stages of the boil so the maximum flavors and aromas of these oils are retained; in the beginning of the boil for bittering and "late hops" for flavoring and aromas toward the end.

Cellaring Fermentation

The wort is quickly chilled to fermentation temperature and live yeast is added as it's transferred to a fermenter. During fermentation the yeast converts the sugars into alcohol and carbon dioxide. The ales begin fermentation at 68 degrees with a top-fermenting yeast and the lagers at 48 degrees Fahrenheit with a bottom fermenting yeast. After fermentation is complete the temperature is dropped down to 30 degrees fahrenheit and the beer undergoes a cold conditioning or "lagering" period from 2 weeks to as long as 6 weeks for our lager.

Next the fully fermented and conditioned beer is now gently cold filtered to remove the yeast to clarify the beer before packaging.

Finally, the finished beer is packaged for consumption. The beer is either "racked" into kegs or prepared for bottling. During bottling we want to be very careful and eliminate oxygen pick up in the bottle. So, as the bottles come into the filler each bottle is purged of oxygen, filled with CO2 and then filled with beer ensuring a fresh and stable bottle. Now the beer is ready to be delivered to your local watering hole and enjoyed with friends.