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Take a look at Tamarack's brewing process

by Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake
| September 20, 2014 9:38 PM

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<p>Joe Byers takes a sample of beer to test on Monday morning, September 15, at the Tamarack Brewing Company. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)</p>

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<p>Joe Byers does a test to determine how the beer is coming along on Monday morning at the Tamarack Brewing Company. Byers said the beer started with a sugar content of 15 brix. At this point in the process the sugar content is down to just over 4 brix. According to Byers the idea will be around 3 and a half. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)</p>

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<p>Josh Pipolo of Kalispell, harvests hops from his garden on Tuesday, September 9. All total Pipolo took forty pounds of hops to the Tamarack Brewing Company for their annual fresh hop brew. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)</p>

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<p>Josh Pipolo displays one of the hops harvest from his yard on Tuesday, September 9 in Kalispell. Joe Byers, head brewer for the Tamarack Brewing Company said one of the goals with this fresh hop brew is to get the hops from harvest into the boiler in under 48 hours. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)</p>

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<p>Joe Byers, head brewer for the Tamarack Brewing Company in Lakeside, pours a bag of freshly harvested hops into the masher as he starts to create a batch of fresh hop beer on Thursday, September 11. The beer will be an India Pale Common and will debut on Saturday, October 11, at the 6th Annual Montana Brewers Fall Festival in Missoula. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)</p>

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<p>Joe Byers, head brewer, works on what will become a fresh hop india pale common (made with lager yeast) on Thursday morning, September 11, at the Tamarack Brewing Company in Lakeside. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)</p>

From the field to the cellar floor to a frosty mug.