I got in with a tour group from Rosso's Pizzeria (the best pizza in town) to visit Lagunitas Brewery in Petaluma. They've become a huge, successful operation and are in the process of expanding to Chicago to cover demand in the eastern U.S. Lagunitas IPA is the #1 selling IPA in California.
Here's a photographic tour of their production facility.
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| There's a LOT of stainless in Sonoma County! That's our tour guide in the lower left of the picture |
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| Bags of ingredients stored everywhere |
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| Love the etching on the lid to the tank |
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| This was a large spaceship-looking contraption |
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| Fermentation tank |
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| Bottling line |
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| A sad story. A new tank was on its way from Germany via a ship when it ran into a hurricane near Panama |
Lots of automation in the plant and lots of equipment that's there it speed up processing as they try to keep up with demand. A nice problem to have!
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