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Andy Farrell, Brewing Innovation Supervisor for Bell’s Brewery, on the Delicate Design of Low-Cal IPAs


Making a terrific low-ABV, low-calorie beer is much more work than simply cutting down a bigger recipe, so when Bell’s Brewery determined to enter the very popular low-calorie class with a lighter riff on their standard Two Hearted Ale IPA, Brewing Innovation Supervisor Andy Farrell knew he had his work lower out for him.

On this dialog, he leads with a common dialogue of the hops choice and validation course of—from constructing a typical lexicon within the crew round aroma and taste notes, to choice course of/scoring and testing then integrating new crop years into the manufacturing cycle. The dialog then turns to bitterness, the place Farrell mentions that Bell’s has all the time dry hopped mainstay Two Hearted throughout energetic fermentation. When translating that signature Two Hearted character into the smaller format of Gentle Hearted, the crew made intelligent selections, like including a little bit of Australian-grown Galaxy hops to the combination, and he explains the testing and design course of behind that small however daring alternative. In mild IPAs, physique is a giant concern, and Farrell dives into the particular methods they fill within the in any other case hole center, solely utilizing conventional brewing components—hops, water, yeast, and malt.

Whereas exploring this new territory is all the time a technique of iteration, Farrell believes that the concept drives the product, moderately than the method leading to a product. “You need to construct a beer with the vacation spot in thoughts,” says Farrell, “and the recipe being the map. Not with the vacation spot unknown.”

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