So It was a long day yesterday. everyone made the 7am bus which was very quite. Most people slept until we got there 3.5 hours later. Once we were there we learned about how briess does there malting process. Interesting fact is that its in an 109 year old malt house and its the smallest malt house in the country. The tour was cool but no pictures were aloud inside so i can't show you the cool stuff. Most of the malting equipment looked like it was from the 30's era. The storage facility was also really old, it was pretty old fashion with all of the old wooden levers to move grain from one place to another. The basement was pretty short. lots of ducking and weaving through the support beams. I should point out that our hardhats on the inside said they were not to be used as hardhats. One of the cooler parts of the facility was the package line. It was completely automated, to fill the 50lb sacks from start to finish. For those that know what super sacs are they filled those there as well. Everything went straight onto a truck and nothing was stored there. After the tour we went back to briess headquarters for lunch and another speaker. At this point they started feeding us beer. Once the uneventful lecture was over it was back on the bus for the ride home. The only different on this ride was the 5 coolers placed throughout the bus fill with beer for us to drink. Lets just say the ride home was no nearly as quiet as the way up. By the time we got back everyone was either drunk or "buzzing like a chainsaw" and some people including myself had another beer at the beir stube. After this of course we went out to a bar for more drinks and cheap burgers. I then promptly passed out at 9:30 and had the best night of sleep here so far. The whole ideal of studying on the bus ride never happened. Oh well just means more of it tonight.
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