“I’m anti-consistency,” says head brewer Phil Pesheck. “If you happen to’re pro-consistency, you’re anti-advancement. I need to repeatedly enhance the beer, batch after batch.”
Enhance they’ve, and Seattle’s Burke-Gilman Brewing pulled off fairly a feat in 2020 with a win on the Alpha King Problem and a gold medal within the juicy/hazy IPA class on the Nice American Beer Pageant. It was a daring assertion for a brand new brewery that had received no main awards earlier than, however it wasn’t simply luck—Pesheck was targeted on successful, and the brewery supported his fanatical, R&D-driven method.
On this episode of the podcast, cofounder Kenneth Trease, Pesheck, and brewer Julia Astrid Davis talk about the person and collaborative methods this very small, taproom-focused brewery has made an enormous splash with hoppy beers:
- Going “full ship” on competitors entry beers
- Visualizing hop combos, and exploring the small methods to drive most affect
- Optimizing the flavour of bitterness
- Maximizing yield regardless of extreme hop masses
- Fermenting and dry-hopping approaches for attractive aroma
- Hops that work as “stars,” and those who increase the efficiency of different hops
- Getting nice outcomes with spot hops
- Taking an iterative, taste-driven method to dry hopping quite than following a set routine
And extra.
IPA isn’t the one factor Burke-Gilman brews, nonetheless. The tagline on their web site reads, “IPA within the streets, lager within the sheets,” and the dialog concludes with dialogue of their lager program and practices.
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