Matthias Trum is the sixth-generation brewer at Bamberg’s Heller-Trum Bräu—higher referred to as Schlenkerla—and he’s as obsessive about native historical past as he’s with producing world-class smoked lagers through their old style strategies.
Bamberg has a protracted historical past of brewing, and Trum is a good scholar of that historical past—and his household has performed an essential function in it. On this episode, he immerses us in that story, discussing:
- outdated household brewing logs that element sturdy beers in addition to lower-strength ones constituted of second runnings
- the true story of rauchbier, and Schlenkerla’s function in preserving its legacy
- particulars on Schlenkerla’s personal wood-fired malting course of, and the outdated observe of utilizing various kinds of wooden
- the non-linear depth of the smoky character in Schlenkerla’s beers
- the significance of decoction to fermentation and taste
- the flavour contribution of their direct-fire copper kettles
- the trick of balancing smoke and malt with evident hop bitterness
- experimenting with malts smoked by completely different woods and paired with completely different aroma hops
- balancing the non-smoked but subtly smoky Helles Lagerbier
- how hyper-inflation led to the event of the Helles
And extra.
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