Bling for our Brewery

My brewery and I have been together for over a year now. It’s been an intense 16 months. We’ve had a few fights full of cursing and recrimination, but all…

The Heaviest Freaking Boulder in the World: Keep Supporting Local Businesses

The re-release of Sisyphus this week made me realize just how appropriate the myth of Sisyphus as a metaphor for opening and running a business is. In fact, it feels…

Surviving COVID-19: One HUGE Thank You

Finally, Slowly, Kinda-Sorta, we get to OPEN OUR DOORS AGAIN! Recent trends and policy changes are building optimism that we will—eventually—emerge from this shadow existence imposed on us by COVID-19….

Building Quality at Silver Branch

Written by James Shellhammer, Quality Control Program Manager The Importance of Quality Control Behind great beer lies a great brewer. While that is true, it’s only part of the story….

Making Barrel-Aged Chronicle

Making a divine barrel-aged stout is my holy grail. It seems like alchemy—combining a beer with a spirits barrel and time to transform the beer into something recognizable, yet also…

Brewing Hazy IPA: Enter Fourth Dimension

Hazy IPA defies what I used to say about brewing: there is nothing truly new under the sun. There are only so many ways to combine beer ingredients. No matter…

Brewing The Glass Castle: Czech Pilsener Tradition

Brewing a test batch for our Silver Branch Brewing Company Czech Pilsener, Glass Castle, was a welcome respite after many months of mostly financial spreadsheets, business planning, raising capital, negotiating…

We’ve Ordered Brewery Equipment!

We’re feeling elated—we just ordered our brewery equipment!  Few decisions in this process, if any, have felt as momentous as this. We are, after all, opening a brewery in order…

Shopping for a Brewery

I’ve always hated shopping. I’m the kind of guy who wears stuff until his wife or mother can’t stand it anymore. If I but delay long enough, one of them…

Coffee Chronicle Experiment

Tropical stouts are a wonderful canvas for adding ingredients like coffee or cocoa.  The smooth, rich flavors of the base beer can hold their own even while the new ingredient…