Olde Hickory Brewery

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Greetings from Olde Hickory Brewery, nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Hickory, North Carolina. Beginning in 1994 with a 7 barrel converted dairy system, we set and accomplished the goal of providing unique traditional ales & lagers available through OHB. Quickly we outgrew that system. In 1997, we began the renovation of an 1880 Historic Landmark building, which now houses our brewing facilities, a 25-barrel Price Schonstrom brew house.

Here is where we begin our brewing process. Almost any grain can be used in the production of beer, but we choose to use Barley, the preferred grain. Our maltsters supply us with the finest malted barley. To this we add other specialty grains from around the world in order to produce our unique beers. The malted barley comes to us in 55 lb. grain sacks, and are hand loaded into our mill. Unlike many other breweries that purchase their grain by the tanker and then pump it into silos, we prefer these small grain sacks. By using these we are able to inspect, smell and taste all the grain as we begin the brewing process. In this process the grain is loaded into the grist mill (the red machine) and cracked open to expose the starches inside the grain. These starches will give the beer flavor, color, body and some will be fermented into alcohol. As the grain is mill it is augured into a holding vessel called the grist hopper.

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