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Sam Zermeño of Brujos Is Casting Liquid Spells


Primarily based in Portland, Oregon, Sam Zermeño is the brewer behind Brujos—a nomadic model that’s given him the chance to make some intensely flavored, extremely regarded beers with buddies and favourite brewers from across the nation. But behind the acclaim and heavy-metal imagery is a thoughts of actual technical know-how and expertise. Beforehand an R&D brewer at Portland’s Nice Notion, his accomplishment there embody a GABF gold medal final 12 months for his or her Feniks grodziskie. Nor was that his first GABF gold; in 2018, he received for a hazy double IPA brewed whereas at Black Market in Temecula, California. Now, Zermeño is embarking on the subsequent part of Brujos, taking on a now-closed brewhouse which he is reworking right into a darkish church worthy of the heavy model.

On this episode, he talks about brewing hazy IPA, with glimpses into his course of that embody:

  • constructing inefficient grain payments with extra wheat and oats than barley
  • brewing with a thick mash, handled gently
  • ending gravities that pull essentially the most out of heavy hop masses
  • boosting calcium chloride
  • drying out triple IPA for stability
  • managing big hop masses

And extra.

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