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10 Barrel’s Tonya Cornett Takes a Layered Method to Fruit Beer


Tonya Cornett marks her brewing expertise in many years, however the head of R&D for 10 Barrel in Bend, Oregon, is not resting on any laurels. She’s earned each proper to cruise, with many GABF and World Beer Cup medals beneath her belt—together with three on the World Beer Cup earlier this yr—however she continues to problem herself and her workforce to search out new and higher methods to precise taste in beer.

One in all her favourite kinds, and one she’s earned broad popularity of, is quick-soured fruit beer. Below their Crush model, 10 Barrel now sells these beers throughout the nation, and Cornett’s small brewery and R&D workforce are continually working forward, creating new iterations with completely different fruits and components for 10 Barrel’s pubs in Bend. On this episode, she discusses how she’s made this “easy” model way more troublesome to make, from various grain payments primarily based on the fruit, to utilizing completely different yeasts, and together with one fruit in a number of varieties to seize all of its taste.

Alongside the best way, she covers:

  • the change over time of their Lacto tradition
  • brewing quick-soured beers in two levels as blender batches
  • utilizing wheat, oats, and dextrin malt to construct mouthfeel and preserve the beers from drying out
  • various pitch price primarily based on the present state of the tradition and manufacturing calendar
  • fastidiously measuring complete acidity relatively than simply pH
  • utilizing hops that complement fruit and acidity
  • managing sulfur manufacturing and controlling diacetyl
  • layering purée, freeze-dried fruit, juice, focus, extracts, and extra to construct an entire fruit image
  • utilizing adjoining fruits in addition to spices to amplify the expression of a main fruit

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