Alstadt Brewery is a exceptional creation—a gleaming brewery, taproom, restaurant, and occasion area designed within the type of a European-style chateau, plopped down within the German-American group of Fredericksburg, Texas, amidst wineries and farms. No expense was spared, and it’s fairly presumably the most expensive build-out of a 12,000-barrel-per-year brewery within the latest historical past of brewing.
It could possibly be written off as an arrogance mission for a rich father and son if the beer didn’t maintain its personal. However in 2019, underneath the management of head brewer Craig Rowan, the brewery took two gold medals on the Nice American Beer Pageant (for helles and Kölsch) and put Texas lager contemporaries on discover that they meant enterprise. Rowan’s profession started at Louisiana’s Abita Brewery, the place he began in packaging and (over a decade) labored his manner as much as the brew deck and into the pilot brewery earlier than leaving for the chance at Altstadt. However Rowan’s deal with precision made him properly suited to take the reins of the brewery in 2018 when the earlier brewmaster departed.
On this episode, he walks by means of the steps they took in honing the sooner iterations of their core beers—a means of testing and enchancment that finally yielded severe rewards. For Rowan, the purpose was using that line of approachability and character, conserving the beers on the decrease aspect of accepted ABV ranges, however making certain that they remained convincing. From malt choice and mash approach to yeast and fermentation course of to water therapy and ending, he outlines the small issues that they tweaked. Whereas they don’t have the power to make use of among the tougher and time-consuming lager-brewing processes, they do sweat the small print, and it reveals within the beer.
“I’m a giant believer within the work you set right into a product reveals to a buyer,” says Rowan. “So if you happen to’re decocting your beer, and also you’re doing it properly—you’ve studied do it, and you actually perceive why you’re doing it and what you’re doing it for–that’s going to indicate up within the remaining product. Working onerous for one thing is at all times going to make it a greater product.”
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