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Palmer's involvement in brewing beer extends beyond the door of his backyard brewery: into the backyard itself, where he grows his own hops!
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Home-brew enthusiast John Palmer is so passionate about home-brewing, he even built his own backyard brewery to house his three-tiered gravity-fed system. - The first-tier hot-water tank is used for "sparging," or mixing, mash (the grain-and-water mixture).
- The mash is created is the second-tier tank, which has a burner underneath for temperature rests.
- After the mash is created, it is sparged with the hot water from the first-tier tank and then collected in the third-tier vessel, where it is combined with hops and boiled for an hour.
- The mixture is then drained into a fermenter.
- To bottle beer, Palmer uses a bottling bucket, which stores the fermented beer. A spigot on the front of the bucket fills the bottles. Palmer fills bottles to 1 /2" from the top to allow for carbonation.
- Finally the beer is capped, then conditioned for two weeks to create carbonation.
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