BKS Artisan Ales (Kansas Metropolis, Missouri) is the results of husband-and-wife crew Brian and Mary Rooney’s try and carry taproom-based fast innovation to brewing of their hometown, and their GABF silver medal in 2021 for Clouds hazy double IPA, GABF gold in 2022 for Rockhill & Locust darkish delicate, and nice scores from the Craft Beer & Brewing blind judging panel have confirmed that they’ve been capable of obtain it. They began small and nonetheless stay small relative to might breweries of comparable quantity, selecting to brew extra batches extra typically into extra fermenters in order that they’ll hold the taproom lineup contemporary and continually evolving.
On this episode, they talk about the brewery background and philosophy, earlier than diving into hazy beer approaches that embrace:
- growing delicate processes for delicate beers that aren’t blocky, angular, or harsh
- utilizing the “terroir” of native water whereas nonetheless attaining very low whole dissolved solids numbers
- taking a aware strategy to pre-boil, kettle, and knockout pH for softer hop character
- choosing hops and hop codecs for softer bitterness
- evaluating hop COAs to ballpark fascinating (and undesirable) hop oil content material in tons
- ageing Mosaic for higher expression in hazy IPA
- fermenting with Conan yeast in an unconventional manner
And extra.
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