For this last episode of 2021, David Walker of Firestone Walker (Paso Robles, California) joins the podcast to speak concerning the brewery’s exceptional evolution—from the earliest days of constructing pale ale to getting fortunate with 805 (and never screwing it up), and accelerating the innovation course of in recent times with hop-forward collection similar to Luponic Distortion and Thoughts Haze. Walker shares his ideas on the whole lot from capital funding to threat administration, fostering a tradition of creativity and high quality, and extra.
Because the brewery continues to develop towards their purpose of one million barrels by the top of this decade, they proceed to comply with concurrent paths that may appear contradictory on the floor, but they mirror the love, respect, and reference to the concept of craft beer and people fellow brewers who make it. From their small-scale membership delivering beers to diehard prospects in California to their annual Invitational competition, they proceed to sweat the small stuff. Nonetheless, scale brings the power to make daring, values-driven choices like investing in environmental sustainability, and Walker talks about their strikes to scale back water consumption and substitute grid energy with photo voltaic.
“American craft brewers introduced taste and innovation and disruption to a monolithic beer business worldwide, and so they modified the world of beer, and so they modified the patron,” Walker says.
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