(Petaluma, CA) – Lagunitas Brewing Owner, Tony Magee, took to Twitter this past weekend to explain an issue that has prevented the brewery from making more beer over the past month. Though the issue appears to have been resolved, in Magee’s words, the “distribution pipeline” ran dry while they were trying to figure it out.
Tho the nu bruhse has been crankin wort fr the last cpl wks, we couldnt get fermenters clean after the bru cuz the top o the line GR made…
— LagunitasT (@lagunitasT) July 1, 2012
…cleaning systm wouldnt clean the freakin tanks. Turns out we were the ONLY install of this combo of parts in the whole freakin world…
— LagunitasT (@lagunitasT) July 1, 2012
…but it took a month for the maker (Keisselmanm) to admit it. We fixed it ourselves, NOW the tanks r turnin and beer is flowin. However…
— LagunitasT (@lagunitasT) July 1, 2012
…like a stream that goes dry (as our distribution pipeline has) it has to rain pretty hard for a while at the headwaters before…
— LagunitasT (@lagunitasT) July 1, 2012
…the flow appears downstream… This last week we put SixtyfukinFourThousand cases/kegs back into that dry river… Flash flood warning!
— LagunitasT (@lagunitasT) July 1, 2012
…next week we'll put closer to 100,000 case/keg equivalents into the flow. One day that old dry river, won't be dry, anymore. (D. Alvin!)
— LagunitasT (@lagunitasT) July 1, 2012