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Bell’s Brewery’s John Mallett on Ingredient High quality, Understanding Malt, and Designing Brewing Workflows


“We’re yeast farmers. We’re attempting to arrange a celebration that our company are simply going to rage at,” says John Mallett, VP of operations for Bell’s Brewery. After all, the fact is much extra complicated than that, however his flippant tone belies the deep data that this longtime brewing veteran brings to the business. Mallett joined Bell’s in 2001 after stints as a brewer and brewery design advisor, again when Bell’s produced a now-relatively-modest 30,000 barrels of beer. He’s helped the brewery develop in phases to their present manufacturing of a couple of half million barrels per yr, by taking a considerate method to every thing from ingredient choice and sourcing to designing the brewhouse for growth. On this episode, Mallett covers a variety of topics, from evaluating hops and controlling the pelletizing course of to inspecting malt homes, evaluating barley varieties, studying between the traces on malt spec sheets, understanding what numbers like Kolbach index imply in sensible phrases, the basics of haze stability in beer, sourcing and evaluating the unbelievable quantity of Centennial hops used of their flagship IPA Two Hearted, and designing and engineering manufacturing workflows and brewhouses for future growth. It’s an intensive, technical dialog filled with the humorousness for which he’s identified.

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