About this Episode
Murphy Johnson of BlackStack in St. Paul, Minnesota, is an enthusiastic brewer with an enormous persona. Regardless of many brewers’ robust opinions on hazy IPA, he’s not afraid to go in opposition to the grain and embrace the murky fashion in all its fruit-forward hop glory. On this nearly totally haze-focused episode, Johnson discusses how they proceed to be taught whereas creating beers—usually by way of collabs with different brewers—as they deploy uncommon strategies and deal with components that don’t break the financial institution.
On this episode, Johnson touches on:
- altering hazy IPA grain payments for aesthetic causes
- feeding voracious dry hops with extra fermentables, comparable to Belgian candi sugar
- utilizing thiol-boosting merchandise with thiol-optimizing yeast for intensely fruit expressions
- how Sabro at low percentages helps to carry out lovely notes from different hops
- constructing creaminess and mouthfeel with Cashmere and comparable hops
- attaining trendy hop flavors with conventional (and cheaper) American hops
- using American Noble hop merchandise within the mash to spice up thiols
- temperature management and spunding when fermenting hazy IPAs
And extra.
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