Chris “Sach” Leidy deserves a gold star, or more likely a free case of beer, for his recent efforts. In a day that would make Mike Rowe from “Dirty Jobs” proud, we had Sach working on some of our equipment.

Brewing beer, if you’re not familiar with the process, can be a pretty dirty job. Especially when you need to work on getting the Cablevey in tip-top shape. For those of you who are uninitiated, the Cablevey is the grain transfer system from the mill in the mill house to the Grist case that is on the roof. The malt is somewhat like flour at that point so that is why Sach has all that white dust all over him.

So Sach battled the Cablevey all day, and in true Flying Dog style, he came out on top.

A Wild Dog will be on the loose in October.  We will be releasing a Smoked Double Lager called “Dog Schwarz” (pronounced: dog sh-varts) in October - just in time for the Great American Beer Festival.  Funny how that works, huh?

As it is with all Wild Dog releases, Dog Schwarz will be available exclusively in hand filled, labeled and corked 750ml champagne-style bottles and in very limited quantity.

For more information on Schwarzbier, click here.

Here’s a look at the label.  Let us know what you think!

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Flying Dog’s analytical brewer Matt Brophy waxes poetic in a Q&A session with Bryon Turner from the renowned Home Brew Beer blog. For the full interview follow this link.

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Our brewer Kurt Randall prepares our new pilot filter system to run our inaugural batch from with our brewer’s newest toy. Naturally, the first batch is Doggie Style. You gotta stick with the classics. This system will be pumping out the newest additions to the Flying Dog line and the test brews will occasionally be available through the Flying Dog tasting room.