Profitable medals isn’t the whole lot in brewing, nevertheless it certain may help. Searching for out that exterior validation from a panel of peer judges is usually extra irritating than it’s rewarding, however that’s by design. It’s onerous to win, and it needs to be.
For Ryan and Jacque Fields of Wild Fields Brewhouse, their hyper-focus on bettering their odds of successful paid off large on the 2022 World Beer Cup, and the younger brewery walked away with 4 gold medals. On this episode, they share a number of the background and philosophy behind their competitors technique, together with how they select classes to enter, and optimizing particular person beers to enchantment to the widest vary of judges.
As well as, the Fieldses focus on:
- constructing a family-friendly brewery taproom
- the ins and outs of American and English-style brown ale
- malt choice for brown ales
- optimizing water chemistry to take beers from good to nice
- using modern strategies similar to whirlpool hopping in basic types
- the strategy to creating funky wild ales that Fields developed at Beachwood Blendery
- unlocking the funk with aged hops
- constructing a hop-tolerant blended tradition that develops acidity slowly
- packaging for competitions
And extra.
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