On this particular episode, two 2023 gold-medal-winning breweries talk about their strategies and approaches to creating wood-aged bitter beer. First up is Kyle Vetter, founding father of 1840 Brewing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, whose kriek-inspired “I Do not Need To Wait” received gold within the fruited wood- and barrel-aged bitter beer class. He hits on the main points behind how the beer was made, together with:
- utilizing oak as an ingredient not only a vessel
- constructing physique with different brewing grains
- choosing barrel inventory to greatest help fruit
- getting ready fruit and getting older over six months
- choosing Brettanomyces strains
And extra.
Then, we’re joined by Joel Stickrod and Spencer Longhurst of Nashville’s Barrique, who speak by way of the strategies behind their gold-winning Moist Hop Strata 2023, together with:
- open-top fermentation in wood barrels
- constructing a mixing library with 4 colleges of wood-aged beer
- utilizing excessive a great deal of unmalted Tennessee wheat
- brewing with aged Cascade hops
- long-term getting older on moist hops
- constructing compelling blends of young and old beer
And extra.
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