For Kevin Stafford, Head Brewer and Cofounder of New York’s Finback Brewery, exploration and inventive expression has at all times been the brewery’s aim, as they wholeheartedly embrace the brand new. However there’s a sure cohesiveness to the vary of their experimentation that grounds it. They’re not purists and don’t subscribe to the factitious limitations imposed by type—what issues is that it tastes good, and evokes a spirit of playfulness.
On this episode, Stafford talks about their strategy to hazy IPA, surprising hops combos, utilizing elements like coconut in flavored IPAs, and monitoring buyer suggestions loops like Untappd scores to assist perceive prospects’ tastes. With their wealthy dessert stouts, he discusses adjunct processes round elements with excessive fats content material resembling nuts, which may pose challenges within the brewhouse, and he discusses additions of high-sugar elements (resembling Froot Loops cereal) whereas fermentation continues to be lively. Physique in huge stouts is essential, and he walks via how they construct it with out a few of the sweetness inherent in lactose approaches.
“If that imperial stout coats the glass—if you rotate the glass somewhat bit—so long as it sticks and makes the glass brown, and stays there for some time—that makes me completely happy,” says Stafford. “I don’t care if there’s no head.”
What does matter to Stafford is sustaining a spirit of weirdness and creativity, placing coconut in every thing, and always difficult themselves to search out new prospects within the beer they make.
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