On this particular GABF Gold version of the podcast, Greg Winget of Wye Hill Brewing in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Alex Sarames of Deadwords Brewing in Orlando talk about their particular (and sometimes unconventional) approaches to their respective gold medal–profitable beers.
Winget and Wye Hill received gold with Luminous Beings, a hazy pale ale that makes use of quite a lot of present strategies to maximise taste expression. He discusses:
- brewing with one hundred pc craft malt
- mash-hopping for thiol precursors, character, and as a pH buffer
- using an unusually lengthy whirlpool spin and soak cycle
- fermenting at cooler temps with Cosmic Punch
- two-stage dry hopping to keep away from over-saturation
- gradual and measured transfers
- the significance of soppy water
- packaging on a really small however low-DO canning line
In the meantime, Sarames and Deadwords received gold with Bridge, an American mild lager with an uncommon hop alternative. He discusses:
- choosing Rahr North Star Pils for its mild character
- single-infusion mashing
- utilizing Vista as the only real hop within the beer
- 120-minute boils to drive off DMS precursors
- switching to BSI’s Andechs Lager pressure for fermentation
- utilizing the RO system to strip down and rebuild water
- sustaining a clear facility
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