103: Beachwood Blendery's Harrison McCabe: Creating the Right Environment for Spontaneous and Pitched Culture Wild and Sour Beers

103: Beachwood Blendery's Harrison McCabe: Creating the Right Environment for Spontaneous and Pitched Culture Wild and Sour Beers

When Long Beach, California's Beachwood Brewing set out to create a wild and sour beer program years ago, they did it with an intentionality one would expect from a brewery that has racked up so many accolades over the years. In this episode, Beachwood Blendery head brewer and blender Harrison McCabe walks through the various ways they've controlled environmental factors in the brewhouse for optimal spontaneous brewing in the non-traditional climate of Southern California, while maintaining parallel programs producing both spontaneous and pitched culture sour and wild beer. To McCabe, the key is using hops, temperature, and mash to slow the lactic acid production process, allowing for more characteristic funk to develop before acidity completely takes over. He talks about how they've embraced a single infusion high-temperature mash, bumped up the amounts of aged hops, and carefully created "seasons" in the barrel warehouse through temperatre control, before discussing everything from blending to fruiting process. Great wild, sour, and spontaneous beer can be made anywhere—it's just a matter of creating a process and environment that favors great flavors.

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469: How Indeed Uses Data to Make Better Brewery Decisions, in Partnership With Encompass

469: How Indeed Uses Data to Make Better Brewery Decisions, in Partnership With Encompass

This special episode of the podcast is brought to you in partnership with Encompass Technologies, and explores how breweries are using data to create savvier approaches to distribution and growth. It...

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468:  Chris O’Connor of Prost and the Quest for Undeniable Helles and Pils

468: Chris O’Connor of Prost and the Quest for Undeniable Helles and Pils

Chris O’Connor, VP of brewing operations at Prost in Northglenn, Colorado, has built a career on being a process nerd. He spent a decade in engineering for the pharmaceutical industry before switching...

3 Huhti 1h 14min

467: Adjusting the Thiol Dial with ISM, Ology, and Berkeley Yeast

467: Adjusting the Thiol Dial with ISM, Ology, and Berkeley Yeast

This special episode of the podcast focuses on adjusting the thiol dial and is brought to you in partnership with the innovative and industry-leading team at Berkeley Yeast. They’ve been on the forefr...

31 Maalis 1h 6min

466: Ryan McCay of Living Waters Finds His Flow in Barrel-Aged Stout and Barleywine

466: Ryan McCay of Living Waters Finds His Flow in Barrel-Aged Stout and Barleywine

Living Waters in Nashville, Tennessee, is a full-service coffee house as well as brewery, and its affinity for strong, well-articulated flavor runs through all the beverages they produce and serve. Re...

27 Maalis 1h 8min

465: Corn Coast’s High and Tight Hazy IPAs Find Success Through Discipline

465: Corn Coast’s High and Tight Hazy IPAs Find Success Through Discipline

Will Walter grew up in a military family, joining the Marines after college just as his father had. But the pull of brewing proved strong, and in 2022 he and two partners—also former military officers...

20 Maalis 1h 14min

464: Bobby Kros of Kros Strain Lets the Liquid Do the Talking

464: Bobby Kros of Kros Strain Lets the Liquid Do the Talking

Bobby Kros hates interviews as much as he loves brewing beer, and while the cofounder of the La Vista, Nebraska, brewery may occasionally search for words to describe what he’s doing, the beers he mak...

13 Maalis 1h 5min

463: Dan Brouillette of Lumen Crunches the Data to Find the Best Hops

463: Dan Brouillette of Lumen Crunches the Data to Find the Best Hops

Dan Brouillette has always worked in creative fields—he was a professional photographer before launching Lumen in the waning days of the pandemic—but he’s always been particularly attracted to the tec...

6 Maalis 1h 17min

462: Bierstadt, New Belgium, Wayfinder, and the Anatomy of a Lager Collaboration

462: Bierstadt, New Belgium, Wayfinder, and the Anatomy of a Lager Collaboration

Beer collaborations are a particularly effective way for brewers to share and learn, but what if you could take that experience and share it with a wider audience? That's the idea behind this episode,...

28 Helmi 1h 20min

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