Nice lagers require dedication and focus, and it’s no shock that the Austin Beer Backyard Brewery has been so profitable at making them—with three-plus many years of lager-brewing expertise between them, cofounders Brian “Swifty” Peters and Amos Lowe have put within the time and realized by brewing hundreds of batches of pils, helles, and extra.
The accolades they’ve collected collectively below the ABGB banner have been spectacular as effectively—seven GABF medals in 5 years (together with six golds), plus 2016, 2017, and 2018 GABF Giant Brewpub of the 12 months honors. The ABGB method is a dedication and deal with doing all of the little issues proper—there aren’t any off-days, there aren’t any shortcuts, there isn’t a “adequate.”
There are, nonetheless, the realities of manufacturing, price range, and enterprise that each small brewery has to face. Over time of brewing lagers for different Texas breweries, Lowe and Peters have devised methods to work round each sort of problem. Brewing is problem-solving, and Swifty has made lagers in every little thing from horizontal fermenters to unjacketed Grundy tanks. In the present day, the ABGB makes use of conicals, but it surely employs a multi-stage tank switch course of to sequentially clear and lager their beers.
On this lager-focused episode, the brewing minds of the ABGB talk about:
- Designing a hybrid, pub-focused lager brewery
- Why decoction isn’t vital, however prolonged lagering is
- The significance of nice substances
- Brewing to a sense-memory commonplace knowledgeable by reminiscences of nice lagers
- The yeast and fermentation magic vital for excellent lager brews
- Optimizing “magnificence” in lagers
- Modifying lagers by filtration
- The affect of water chemistry on every little thing from fermentation to hop character
- Ending lagers with pure carbonation
They’re unabashed traditionalists, however firmly centered on these strategies and parts that straight affect taste. From decoction (“It’s simply an excessive amount of work for an on a regular basis [thing]”) to lagering time (“Persons are proud to say ‘I’ve a four-week lager,’ and for us it’s like, ‘Whoa, that’s fairly younger’”), they each embrace and reject lager dogma, leaning into their very own expertise to make lagers that style precisely how they need them to. However for the ABGB, the important thing to creating nice lagers is doing all the little issues, each single time. Not a number of the time, not more often than not—all the time.
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