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Lacie Bray and Andy Coates of Ozark Beer Show Accessibility Doesn’t Imply Sacrificing Character


When Lacie Bray and Andy Coates, the founders of Ozark Beer in Rogers and Bentonville, Arkansas, started planning their brewery, it wasn’t but authorized to promote beer in Benton County and you can depend the variety of breweries within the state on one hand. However cultural and enterprise adjustments had been underway within the house of retail big Walmart, and over the previous decade they’ve grown in live performance with the inhabitants and the culinary/hospitality world round them.

On this episode, Bray and Coates focus on:

  • Designing beer for a market new to craft beer
  • Working by means of the challenges of adverse alcohol legal guidelines
  • Dialing in flavors which are engaging and fascinating with out being overwhelming
  • Ingredient selections for longevity in packaging
  • Utilizing the Edinburgh pressure as their home ale pressure
  • The worth of Chinook in amplifying the character of different hops
  • Creating craft lager that’s distinctive with out referencing European kinds
  • Discovering language that makes craft kinds interesting to broad audiences
  • The development of BDCS (Bourbon Double Cream Stout), their annual barrel-aged stout
  • The significance of contemporary barrels

and extra.

For extra on Ozark Beer, see the cowl story within the Fall 2021 problem of the Brewing Trade Information.

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