Hey Homebrewers, Free Wort!

Did you miss out on 75th Street Brewery‘s wort giveaway this morning?  (We didn’t; check future posts for a Brew Day Session.)  Good news for you, Free State Brewery has wort to give away.  There’s no contest with this wort, just the satisfaction of making your own beer.

Free State hates to see things go to waste, so they’re offering their unhopped, unboiled, leftover wort from when they brewed their Old Backus Barleywine.  They only take the strongest of the wort from their mash to make the barleywine and what’s left still has a lot of sugar in it.  That’s what you get!  It’s the first time they’ve tried to collect this, so they don’t know what the strength is.

What you need to do to get some is bring a sanitized container and enter the brewery from the west end dock.  Kansas charges 20¢ per gallon in taxes so they ask for $1 for each 5 gallons you pick up.  There’s no limit on how much you can get right now, but if there’s a huge demand, they may limit it.

Go to Free State Brewery in Lawrence on Thursday, October 2nd, starting at 6pm to get some for yourself.