Cheese City Beer Co is proud to announce that not only will it be helping to sponsor Farm Aid 2019, but you will also be able to get Cheese City Beer at the Festival! We will be debuting our fall seasonal brew Agriculture Ale at the Farm Aid Festival on Saturday, September 21st at AlpineContinue reading “Cheese City Beer at Farm Aid 2019!”
Author Archives: Jeremy Beach
Coming Soon: N1671 Estate Ale!
Debuting at the Bacon & Brews Festival in Madison, WI on June 29th is our N1671 Estate Ale. This blonde ale was brewed with oats and watermelon. 100% of the water, barley, oats, hops, and watermelon in this Estate Ale came directly from our 5th generation family farm located in Monroe “Cheese City” Wisconsin! CansContinue reading “Coming Soon: N1671 Estate Ale!”
Coming soon! Blackberry & Vine
Blackberry & Vine farmhouse fruit ale Fresh from the farm, a light fruit ale with juice from blackberries and four varieties of wine grapes producing a fruity floral aroma, crisp and dry fruit flavor, and a light refreshing finish. 100% of the hops, barley, wheat, grapes, and blackberries were planted, grown, and harvested on ourContinue reading “Coming soon! Blackberry & Vine”
2017 Update
It’s been an incredibly busy year so far, filled with plenty of one-step forward and two-steps back type of moments, but at least that’s kept things interesting! While the hops and grapes continue to mature, I’ve already gotten loads of blackberries and am starting to get some early pickings of aronia berries. On the smallContinue reading “2017 Update”
Happy New Year!
Wrapping up 2016
It’s the end of another growing season at the Cheese City Beer farm and while this year proved very successful (33,000 lbs of barley, 600 lbs of oats, 400 lbs of hops, 200 lbs of grapes, and 50 lbs of blackberries), the first batch of beer is unfortunately not ready to release yet. In orderContinue reading “Wrapping up 2016”
Malting Barley
A big thank you to MotorCity Malthouse for malting the first batch of Cheese City barley! Malting the barley is necessary in order to develop the enzymes that modify the starches in the barley into fermentable sugars that can be converted into alcohol by the yeast that is added during brewing. The malting process isContinue reading “Malting Barley”
Hop harvest winding down
It’s been an extremely busy past few weeks harvesting about 75% of my hop crop this year. Luckily, my parents graciously agreed to help me hand pick the hop cones off of the bines since my harvester is still not working as efficiently as I’d like it to. Since I now need to start harvestingContinue reading “Hop harvest winding down”
Hop cones
All of the little hop burrs have now formed into hop cones on my early-maturing varieties of hops, especially the Centennial pictured above. The hop cones look like smaller versions of pine cones with papery-textured green leaflets that vary by variety with regard to their size (some varieties are twice the size of others), shapeContinue reading “Hop cones”
Harvesting barley
Yesterday my dad and I combined about 8 acres of my barley since it was mature and the moisture content was at about 16.5%. After unloading the combine into a gravity box wagon, as seen in the picture above, we unloaded the wagon into an auger that sent it up and into one of ourContinue reading “Harvesting barley”
Cheese City Beer Farm 