About this Episode
The town of Grodzisk Wielkopolski was as soon as a serious middle of brewing in nineteenth century Poland, however political unrest, world wars, communism, after which misguided capitalism all performed components in closing the earlier chapter of town’s brewing historical past within the early 90’s. However the rise of craft beer additionally led to a resurgence in curiosity for obscure types just like the smoked wheat beer that made town well-known, and by 2016 a brand new group of householders relaunched the unique Grodzisk brewery with a heartfelt mission—to share this homegrown Polish beer type with the world. On this episode, head brewer Marcin Ostajewski shares historical past and course of for the type, in addition to ways in which trendy brewers are maintaining the type vibrant and alive by trendy variations.
Via the episode, Ostajewski discusses:
- rebuilding the historic grodziskie recipe by historic sleuthing and first hand experiences
- cofermenting grodziskie with two ale yeasts over lots of of generations
- brewing with tomyski hops
- working with a maltster to supply oak smoked wheat malt the place the malt is dried by the smoking course of fairly than smoked after kilning
- utilizing lengthy mashes to insure success
- brewing grodziskie with aged hops for extra preservative qualities from beta acids
- sprucing the beer’s readability to scale back potential foaming with the very excessive carbonation
- brewing trendy flavored variations of grodziskie
And extra.
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