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For some members of the Wizards, it's almost more about beer, good beer, than it is about broomball. Regular visits to St. Paul's Vine Park Brewery are part of the dream. Visit www.vinepark.com It's a place where you brew and bottle your own beer. Kegs of Vine Park brewed by the Wizards are a fixture at recent banquets; And one of our pilsners won a blind taste test against seven other great pilsners.
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We start with a clean workspace, heat resistent gloves, a scale, bowls, and large measuring pitchers.....
The malt syrup is measured.... It's thick and heavy
We like darker beers...
some of us are convinced that the ethereal power of dark roasted grain has the power to regrow hair.
Adding the malt to the kettle
A variety of hops are measured and added to the wort at various stages
It requires close supervision, we're scientists.
a yeast culture is started
and added to the quickly cooled wort after it's moved to the fermentation vessel
We leave our beer to ferment and age for a couple of weeks and then return for bottling....
The bottles are filled and capped,
but we must be sure that the beer we're bottling meets our stringent standards
so we taste test
It's really good, and it's really fresh, so we keep bottling and we keep testing
Then we bring it home
