The Humble Sea origin story informed by cofounder and brewmaster Nick Pavlina is a typical one: Avid homebrewer turns professional on the urging of household and buddies. But that early expertise with brewing, brewing, and brewing some extra—on a one-barrel system—instilled a self-discipline for testing, evaluating, and adapting that stays with Humble Sea to today.
A 2022 World Beer Cup silver medal for Munich-style helles gave them the validation they hunted for the nascent lager program—however relatively than anchor them in place, that success put extra wind of their experimental sails. They proceed to tinker with that beer, testing mash-step occasions and temperatures in addition to fermentation parameters, in an ongoing quest to make it as good as doable.
In the meantime, they’ve hitched a trip on the swift present of hazy IPA—or, of their lingo, “foggy IPA”—however they’ve finished so in methods impressed by their West Coast locale. The consequence has been vital progress, and the brewery now has 5 completely different ports they name residence.
On this episode, Pavlina and brewing operations director Nate Chesser focus on:
- growing a home lager type by assembling items of varied traditions and the practices of brewer friends
- altering and adjusting their medal-winning helles regardless of its success
- embracing decoction for each its tangible and intangible advantages
- selecting and sourcing Noble hops for helles and pilsner
- fermenting lagers with a much less frequent yeast pressure
- constructing their preliminary “foggy” IPA out of a Pliny the Elder–impressed recipe
- leaning into their distinctive water profile
- spunding IPA for pure carbonation
And extra.
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