"The freshest, cleanest tasting beer you've ever had."

James Calley Brewing Company is a beautiful brewpub in the suburbs of Tulsa, Oklahoma. They have a large, open-concept brewery and are using BREWHA Equipment's 5-in-1 fermentors that allow them to serve directly from the tanks the beer is brewed in. As Randy points out, this gives them the freshest tasting beer possible.

For more details about James Calley Brewing Co, visit jcbrew.com

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:09 The process of starting the brewery
00:37 Brewery equipment selection
02:11 Freshest, cleanest beer
03:12 Small footprint
04:01 Best thing about owning a brewery

My name is Randy Calley and I am one of the owners of James Calley Brewing Company here in Sapulpa, Oklahoma. Jim (James) and I acquired this building and it used to be an old machine shop, it made oil field equipment.

When we opened the door up in here, I looked at it, I said, yeah, this could be cool. This could really turn out to be something special. Jim's wife, Jennifer and my wife Betty, have been very important in what we've been able to establish here. And a lot of their ideas and thoughts are what you see today.

Had it not been for BREWHA Equipment we probably wouldn't have chosen this building to open a brewery. It would not have carried the same feeling. The character that we wanted to establish, what we were trying to do with a 1915 building and state of the art equipment in the same place.

When we got to talking about what equipment, what would we buy, I never veered away from the BREWHA. This particular unit differed from everything else out there. When Jim looked at it he said, this is the only way to go. It makes no sense to brew beer any other way.

In traditional brewing, you're actually boiling in a kettle and then you have to transfer it into some type of fermenting tank. I never really wanted to do that. I never really wanted to move the beer ever. So today we never take the beer out of the vessel. It starts as a mash. Then we turn around and boil, then we turn around and cool it down in the same vessel. Then we pitch the yeast in the same vessel and we let it ferment, and then we take it on this little journey from that room to this room and we hook it up to the tap, straight out of the vessel.

You're drinking it straight out of the fermentor. It's never moved. It doesn't know what oxygen is till it hits your glass 'cause it's all held inside. Never opened up. I don't know why we would do it any other way. Is the freshest, cleanest, non yeast filled up tasting beer you've ever had in your life. It's absolutely phenomenal! It's clean. I mean, it's crisp because it's sitting there. It's not been moved, it's not been disturbed. It's not been transferred from one vessel to another vessel to another vessel in the process. This takes out a tremendous amount of mistakes that may happen in the brewing process 'cause you're not moving it. It's in its original home. And now you're getting to experience it straight from his home. I love it!

It's super important to me to have the freshest beer possible. And when one (fermentor) goes empty behind the bar, 'cause we're serving straight from the vessel, we just wheel it out and wheel one of those in, change the name on the menu of the beer we put behind there and rock on!

It's footprint that it takes up, it's just remarkable. I love the fact that it's mobile that is not stationed to the ground. So we have a festival every year, it's called Hops on Hobson and it's right outside our front door. So we took two of the vessels, rolled 'em to the front door, hooked up our chilling units and put them on the table and served our beer right at the front door. You can't believe how easy it rolls when it's full. One guy can move it easily. No problem.

The last thing I wanted to do was hide this in a room behind. It needs to be where people can see it. I said, it needs to be so they know and can be understanding of what's going on. They can even watch us as we are working.

The best thing about owning a brewery, I'm going to tell you right now, it's not the beer, it's the people. It is definitely the people. This is about our community, about bringing the community to a spot. They know what we're trying to do and they wanna be a part of it. They like what they see, they like how they feel when they come in. And it's not just the beer, it's the whole environment. This, this whole system creates it because they get to see where it's coming from. It's not hidden. It's right in front of them!

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