Oak Highlands Brewery has a 2,200-square foot production area with new floors that are sloped to drains. We operate a fully automated 3-vessel, 30-barrel brewhouse that was manufactured in 2015 by Alpha Brewing Operations out of Lincoln, Nebraska. The three brewhouse vessels are a mash mixer/lauter tun, boil kettle, and whirlpool. Our hot liquor and cold liquor tanks are both 60-barrels with the cold maintained at 38 degrees and the hot at 178 degrees. We use steam to heat the brewhouse and a hot liquor tank using a 1.2 million BTU boiler. We have a dual stage heat exchanger for knock out (wort cooling), and five 30-barrel fermenters and two 30-barrel brite tanks. Our cold liquor, fermenters, and brite tanks are all double insulated and cooled with a 27 horsepower glycol chiller manufactured by G&D Chillers out of Washington. We can our beers using a Cask, 3-head filler Semi-Automated Manual Canning System (SAMS) and keg our beers using both 50L and 1/6 barrel kegs.
