This week’s episode is a panel dialogue on lager brewing, recorded in entrance of a dwell viewers late one night time on the patio of Cerveza Fauna after a full day of judging for the Copa Baja beer pageant in Mexicali, Mexico, in late 2023. Becoming a member of the dialogue are three distinguished lager brewers—Ashleigh Carter of Denver’s Bierstadt Lagerhaus, Ryan Brooks of San Diego’s SouthNorte, and Jeff Bagby (who, earlier this week introduced that he was becoming a member of Inexperienced Cheek Beer as they purchase Bagby’s brewery in Oceanside, California).
The placement in Mexico supplies the right backdrop for diving into Mexican, Mexican-style, and adjunct lagers, and the dialogue additionally focuses on darkish lagers. Alongside the best way, they cowl inventive and technical factors reminiscent of:
- the problem of brewing nice lager in smaller batch sizes
- understanding different brewers’ industrial approaches by way of lab evaluation
- priorities for gear and course of
- strategies for brewing higher lager on methods designed for single-infusion ale
- understanding the impression of water on lager brewing
- choosing yeast for Mexican-style lager
- approaches to pure carbonation
- brewing with corn through cereal mash versus pre-gelatinized merchandise
- making specialty beer with popcorn
- intelligent approaches to constructing colour with out intense darkish malt taste
And extra.
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