WFIT Oktoberfund Kolsch Beer: Proudly brewed by WFIT staff and help from Brock’s Home Brew Supply we offer our fine Kolsch beer for a $100.00 donation during WFIT’s Fall Fund Drive! ";s:
Special thanks goes to Steve B. in Connecticut for all the great artwork, he listens on line and is a long time member of WFIT!
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After sterilizing everything the beer will touch, we fill the pot with 15 gallons of water and add the ingredients. Here we add the grain.
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And now we add the hops.
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And finally, the malt!
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Dipping the grain in much like a tea bag.
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Fermenting the brew yeast.
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A peek inside the 17 gallons of Oktoberfund brew!
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After mixing the beer ingredients, WFIT Oktoberfund brew sat for a couple months to work its beer magic.
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Bottling day at Brock's! 144 bottles clean, sterilized and ready to be filled with WFIT’s Oktoberfund Kolsch! ";
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Terri sanitizes the bottles.
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WFIT volunteer Jay Lamy gets into bottling.
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Pam with her beer shirt bottling the brew.
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Attaching the labels to carriers: easier than it sounds; 24 carriers with four crack and peel labels, we’re all thumbs!";
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Bottle Labeling Begins: 144 crack n’ peel bottle labels to do. Thanks to the WFIT crew, we knocked it out in less than an hour!";
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WFIT (and George) approved!
WFIT made its special ‘Oktoberfund’ Kolsch beer at Brock’s Home Brew Supply for the 2013 Fall Fund Drive.
Here’s the photo slide show of our beer making experience!
Born in Hartford, CT George was surrounded by music from the get go. His dad, being a high school band director by day and professional jazz pianist by night, would bring home instruments for George to explore. By the time he was a high school student, George was often called upon to fill in sections of the band on different instruments. The drums were definitely George’s calling and at the age of nine he joined one of the many ‘fife & drum’ corps popular in the North East. Through his teen years George played with many a band in the local Connecticut Club scene.