Ask most American brewers about their first expertise with New Zealand hops, and 9 out of ten will most likely title one single beer—Alpine Beer’s Nelson. Alpine founder Pat McIlhenney was one of many early ones to import southern hemisphere hops, and it’s onerous to talk about the hop now with out acknowledging the significance of that singular beer. Son Shawn McIlhenney inherited his dad’s love of hops and experimentation, and at this time continues to push the boundaries of components and strategies via McIlhenney Brewing.
On this episode, McIlhenney touches on:
- the evolution of San Diego IPA
- utilizing enzymes to handle a flaked rye mash
- combining Nelson Sauvin and Nectaron hops for optimum impact
- first wort hopping for much less aggressive chew
- mixing entire leaf hops with superior hop merchandise like Incognito
- pushing the tremendous line between sufficient and an excessive amount of
- deciding on Southern hemisphere hops
- recipe concerns when scaling as much as double and triple IPA
- avoiding the flavour results of over-aeration
- rediscovering the non-public pleasure of constructing beer
And extra.
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