Wisconsin Cathedral

[Chunk]

Much of Wisconsin's beer starts its processing here. When I was growing up this was always "the junction" or "the malt house" or "Ladish Malt". In recent years it has gone through several aquisitions by other companies but the guys that work there still work at "Ladish". Barley from the prairies is brought here and put through the malting process which allows the barley to gerninate. This causes the starch stored in the seeds to be converted to sugars and then the germination is stopped. The malt is then dried and shipped off to the breweries where it is proccessed into beer. All my life I've been looking at this building and not bothering to photograph it although it has always seemed a thing of ugly beauty plunked down in the middle of Wisconsin dairy farms. In the past few days I've started taking some of the shots that I've been seeing over the years. I think others around here (Jefferson) may be interested in some well composed views of the malt house so I hope you all help me to get the best shots I can.