e recorded this episode of the podcast reside from Odell Brewing on Sloan’s Lake as a part of our latest Brewery Workshop: New Brewery Accelerator occasion in Denver. The three panel company—Jake Gardner, director of brewing operations at Westbound & Down; Marni Wahlquist, head brewer at Odell Sloan’s Lake; and Sean Buchan, proprietor and head brewer at Cerebral—signify a compelling cross-section of IPA from Denver and the Rocky Mountain area. All three are Nice American Beer Pageant medal winners, and Westbound & Down is recent off GABF 2023 gold in West Coast–Type IPA and silver in New Zealand IPA (to not point out a bronze for his or her Coloradan Mexican-style lager).
On this episode, these three panelists cowl the gamut of IPA, from hazy to clear, as they focus on the elements, strategies, and basic approaches that outline their IPA brewing applications. Over the course of the dialogue, they contact on:
- the influence of hazy IPA on West Coast IPA
- choosing hop heaps to span totally different IPA kinds
- maximizing hop saturation with fashionable hop merchandise
- designing malt help in modern IPA
- drying out West Coast IPA with out sacrificing physique
- avoiding the entice of sweet-on-sweet in hazy IPA
- selecting bittering hops for smoothness
- maximizing hop high quality with out collaborating in hop choice
- the reversion to the imply of drinkability in hop-forward kinds
And extra. Whereas brewing cutting-edge IPA may not be probably the most worthwhile factor for a brewery to do, it speaks to why so many brewers and customers are drawn to craft beer generally. As Gardner says, “Westbound & Down’s historical past will not be one to point out how hop product could make you extra money. They’re only a means we mild cash on fireplace to have tons of enjoyable. However that being stated, there’s a enterprise technique in that too. Our buyer base is alongside for the trip.”
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