Notes on brewing in a bush camp

cooking wort. Photo cred – Lisa King

This summer I spent some fifty days in a tree planting camp near High Level in northern Alberta. Since the logging roads turn to swamp in the summer, everything we needed had to be flown in by helicopter and beer was hard to come by. So, before leaving Edmonton for the two day trip north, I bought two corny kegs, a carboy, CO2 tank, siphon, malt extract, hops, and grain.

— Before you continue, a warning, this post is about brewing and I geek out —