Free Brewery Tours and Tastings are every Sat. at 2 p.m. 
            
            
            
            

            1. 
            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/troegsgear.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.
            

            

            
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            Ingredients

            

            
            Tröegs Brewing Company was founded on one simple principal, fresh, 
            full bodied specialty beers brewed from the finest all natural 
            ingredients – malted barley, hops, yeast and pure water. There are 
            no "adjuncts", cheap unmalted cereals, we never use rice or corn 
            fillers. Only time tested natural ingredients and traditional 
            brewing methods for great tasting ales and lagers

            

            
             

            
            
            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.

            

            
             

            

            
             

            

            
             

            

            
                                                                                                                                                                                    
            
            
            Filtration

            

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

            

            
             

            

            
             

            

            
            Bottling

            

            
            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.

            

            
            Tours are given every Saturday at 2pm or by appointment.  
            There is no admission fee

            

            
            Tröegs Brewing Company : 
            800 Paxton Street 
            : Harrisburg, PA 17104 

            

            
            (717) 232-1297 : Info@Troegs.com