Silo Installation at the Tamarack Brewing Company

A 33 foot tall, 55 thousand pound grain silo is installed outside the Tamarack Brewing Company on Monday morning, April 2, in Lakeside. According to Andra Townsley of Tamarack they will be getting their first full truck load, 48 thousand pounds, of two-row barley from Malt Europ of Great Falls sometimes within the next two weeks. This Montana grown product provides the base for all the beers made by Tamarack. Until now the brewers have had to put 50 pound bags into the mash tun to begin the brewing process. Sometimes they would go through as much as 1500 pounds or 30 bags per day. The grain will now be augured directly from the silo into the brewhouse. "The brewers are pretty excited about this,"said Townsley. "We're excited too because a grain silo is kind of iconic of craft brewing companies and we started pretty small. With the new store and restaurant in Missoula our production has increased so much that a silo became necessary."