Grains of Wrath’s Mike Hunsaker has by no means been afraid to work for his success, and that journey of working and studying has led him to brewing gigs from Virginia to Cleveland and Oregon. Right now, as Cofounder and Head Brewer for Grains of Wrath (Vancouver, Washington), he’s targeted not simply on business success, but in addition on making beers that his friends respect.
“I’m proud of making rather less cash, however having extra respect, so far as what we’re doing right here and the way we go about our enterprise,” says Hunsaker.
On this episode, Hunsaker discusses each his strategy to new-school West coast IPAs, and his strategy to lagers like his twice GABF medal-winning Vienna Lager. The dialog covers:
- Tweaking the malt mix in IPAs based mostly on the oil content material of hops
- Regional variations in approaches to malt in IPA
- The impacts of Munich, Vienna, and Carablonde when blended in West coast IPA
- Mixing hops for max influence
- Cold and hot facet hopping regimens
- Planning for hops creep and adjusting recipes and strategies
- With every new crop yr, testing varieties for hops creep culprits
- Bittering lagers with low-alpha hops
- And far more
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