Portland, Oregon’s proximity to hop nation provides its brewers an enviable perspective on hop flavors, aromas, evolving applied sciences, and seasonal expressions, and the brewers at Ruse don’t take that as a right. When growing recipes, cofounder Shaun Kalis loves pushing the envelope to search out further depth utilizing the newest flowable hop merchandise, however he additionally finds punch and taste density in earlier generations of merchandise, used judiciously together with hops in different codecs.
By way of this episode, Kalis discusses:
- utilizing flaked wheat and flaked rice to decrease FAN and enhance the snap
- early decide Columbus for bittering and a wholesome dose of CO2 extracted Mosaic or Simcoe with T-90’s for long-lasting hop taste
- choosing completely different expressions inside the similar hop selection for layering character in IPA
- lifting up hop flavors by boosting underlying dankness
- adjusting pH whereas brewing contemporary hop beers
- sizzling facet hopping for extra impactful and long-lasting taste
- making use of new concepts to hazy IPA
And extra.
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