About this Episode
In Oakland Park, Florida, Brewlihan meadery sits in rarified air atop Untappd’s listing of high breweries on the earth. Their rabid fan base has propelled them to No. 5—as of this recording—a rating that founder John Hoolihan does not take with no consideration, as he frequently applies science and chemistry to stability taste, acidity, gravity, and tannin. On this episode, recorded stay through the 3 Sons Lumberjack Day competition, Hoolihan discusses:
- rising the meadery from a homebrewing challenge to a business enterprise
- designing a base mead for a number of fruit expressions
- utilizing carbonation and oak-aging in session mead
- taste contributions of varied honey varieties
- wholesome however low-and-slow fermentation with 14 yeast varieties
- scaling mead from homebrew to business batch sizes
- mead fermentation dynamics
- speaking the sweetness ranges of completed meads
- working with tannin and tartness to stability sweetness
- the influence of acidity on getting old
And extra.
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