Don’t inform Jean-Phillippe Lalonde of Silo that craft lager is a “new” pattern—he’s been brewing small batches for Montreal drinkers for practically 15 years.
Opened two weeks earlier than COVID shutdowns in 2020, Silo is the second manifestation of Lalonde’s brewing imaginative and prescient. Designed with packaging in thoughts, Silo additionally consists of some considerate decisions (akin to a direct-fire kettle) which are budget-friendly whereas supporting the sorts of lagers he likes to make and drink—expressive ones with fullness and taste.
With lagers impressed by Franconia and Plzeň, altbier and Kölsch impressed by Köln and Düsseldorf, and a mindest that doesn’t worry regional tweaks akin to North American hops and grain, Lalonde views innovation inside the broad confines of custom. For him, late hopping a Czech-style pale lager is okay… however dry hopping is a bridge too far.
On this episode, Lalonde discusses:
- the dream of constructing a brewery with only one beer
- constructing fullness with protein, scorching mashes, lengthy boils, and a bit of little bit of assist from specialty malt
- incorporating North American hops akin to Crystal into conventional lager
- utilizing a pseudo-decoction method to construct extra physique
- balancing sweetness and bitterness in fulsome lagers
- utilizing low-alpha hops throughout a number of factors within the boil, from 75 minutes to zero
- managing sulfur manufacturing
And extra.
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