Sturdy brewing communities produce clusters of nice breweries, and the Colorado brewing world, centered in Denver, isn’t any totally different. Pleasant competitors drives innovation, exploration, and refinement in addition to educated shoppers with increased and better expectations, and on this episode, we introduced collectively three mates (every medal-winning brewers) for a dialog on their strategy to West coast IPA.
Brian Hutchinson of Cannonball Creek has introduced house a slew of medals within the pale ale area (11 complete GABF and World Beer Cup medals between their pale ale and session IPA), and picked up a GABF gold medal final 12 months for his or her New Zealand-style IPA. Jake Gardner of Westbound & Down has earned a handful of GABF and World Beer Cup medals for his or her West coast IPAs like Spirit of the West and Westbound Choose. And Phil Joyce of Amalgam most just lately introduced house gold for West coast IPA within the Colorado Brewers Cup, after putting fourth on the Alpha King Problem final 12 months.
On this episode, the three transfer by means of a spread of IPA brewing subjects, together with:
- designing IPA with clear flavors which might be straightforward to linguistically determine
- decocting and step mashing WCIPA for increased attenuation, foam stability, and FAN uptake
- constructing a malt base in WCIPA with blends of Pilsner malt
- utilizing flaked wheat in smaller percentages for mouthfeel
- fermenting with Chico yeast for dry and low-ester beers
- minimizing hop creep with ALDC, diacetyl-free yeast, and different yeast well being instruments
- driving quicker and more healthy fermentations for extra vibrant hop character
- perceive the influence of water on WCIPA
- integrating taste and bitterness
- the influence of pH on hop expression
- choosing loud hops that punch exhausting
And extra.
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