“Innovation” is a beer-world buzzword, as increasingly drinkers hunt down new breweries, beers, experiences, and flavors. However for Southern California brewing stalwart Jeff Bagby of Bagby Beer, that fixed give attention to the brand new is extra harmful than his conventional method.
“I’m extra frightened of… making beers which might be flash-in-the-pan types,” Bagby says. “These items can depart simply as quick as they got here, and should you don’t have one thing to fall again on—you possibly can’t make a core beer, you possibly can’t make one thing that somebody desires to return into your house and have three glasses of—what are you going to do? There are solely so many flashy new toys that you simply’re going to have the ability to provide you with.”
Bagby’s lengthy and award-filled journey took him from Stone to Pizza Port to Oggi’s earlier than he launched his personal brewery. After 20 years of brewing professionally he took the plunge, launching his eponymous brewpub in 2014 in Oceanside. On this episode, Bagby recounts classes realized throughout that storied profession—participating within the brewing suggestions loop, the significance of expertise on brewing expression, studying the ins and outs of the brewhouse, evaluating inspirational beers, and extra. Alongside the way in which, he discusses every little thing from brewing Czech-style darkish lager, to pilsner, to the beers he’s most well-known for—West coast IPAs.
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