For those who go to the Deschutes Brewery taproom in Bend right this moment, you may’t miss the innovation brewhouse. It’s proper there within the entrance window to your left as you stroll in, tucked beneath the towering fermentors that produce the brewery’s best-known manufacturers. The system itself is exceptional—a seven-vessel automated system with two kettles and two whirlpools, so the brewers can break up the wort stream after the mash. That’s supported by a cellar of 13 nano-scale fermentation vessels and 7 tiny brite tanks, all constructed with geometries that mimic the manufacturing brewhouse’s full scale vessels. Managing all of it is Matthias, our visitor on the podcast this week.
On this episode, Matthias discusses the vary of approaches to innovation employed by Deschutes, in addition to a few of the necessary classes they’ve discovered over the previous yr and a half of brewing intensively on the pilot system. The conversations contains:
- brewing low-calorie however flavorful IPAs
- dry hopping throughout versus after energetic fermentation
- the impression of pH on hops expression
- head-to-head hops assessments
- the event course of for beers equivalent to King Crispy pilsner
- Deschutes’ cocktail-inspired strategy to laborious seltzer and its growth course of
- utilizing various acids (in addition to lactic) in tart and bitter beer
- the appropriate purposes for fruit juice, puree, and complete fruit
And way more.
“To decide to an expense as massive because the pilot brewery undoubtedly sends a message that we’re not simply going to relaxation on our laurels,” Matthias says. “We all know we have to proceed to do issues in another way. We’re persevering with to ship new merchandise, and popping out with them sooner and sooner yearly. [We] depend on emotion, ardour, and intestine intuition to provide you with what could possibly be the following disrupter within the trade.”
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