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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453: Gert Christiaens of Oud Beersel Is Preserving Oude Gueuze Heritage by Building New Flavor Bridges

453: Gert Christiaens of Oud Beersel Is Preserving Oude Gueuze Heritage by Building New Flavor Bridges

Gert Christiaens loved the beers of Oud Beersel so much that he couldn’t abide the brewery closing in 2003. So, he bought the brewery, learned to brew, and for the past 20 years has focused on preserv...

2 Tammi 1h 39min

452: Counting Down Your Favorite Episodes of 2025

452: Counting Down Your Favorite Episodes of 2025

In this special year-end episode, we look at the ten most-downloaded episodes of the podcast, share stories behind the conversations, recount personal favorites, and more, with clips from the top ten ...

27 Joulu 20251h 4min

451: Dimitri Staelens of Adept Throws out the Rule Book in Brewing Distinctive Belgian Ales

451: Dimitri Staelens of Adept Throws out the Rule Book in Brewing Distinctive Belgian Ales

Dimitri Staelens spent 15 years directing quality across a range of breweries owned by Duvel Moortgat in Europe and North America. Along the way, he built a deep understanding of ingredients and proce...

19 Joulu 20251h 33min

450: Stephen Boardman of 450 North Builds Intense Flavor and Nostalgic Connection With Fruit

450: Stephen Boardman of 450 North Builds Intense Flavor and Nostalgic Connection With Fruit

From the corner of the family farm in rural Columbus, Indiana, surrounded by corn fields, 450 North has built a worldwide reputation for intensely flavored fruit beers and supersaturated smoothie sour...

12 Joulu 20251h 14min

449: Christopher Lackner of the Hemp Beverage Alliance Is Fighting for the Loophole that Became an Industry

449: Christopher Lackner of the Hemp Beverage Alliance Is Fighting for the Loophole that Became an Industry

When President Trump signed the bill to reopen the government on November 12, he also enacted a law that will—unless changed within a year—effectively ban hemp-derived THC beverages and other products...

5 Joulu 20251h 1min

448: West Coast Pils Panel Discussion Live From the Brewers Retreat

448: West Coast Pils Panel Discussion Live From the Brewers Retreat

This week’s episode comes from a live panel discussion on West coast pils recorded a few weeks ago at the Craft Beer & Brewing Brewers Retreat in Asheville, North Carolina, and features Khristopher Jo...

28 Marras 202556min

447: Building Character in Lagers with 34/70 and Beyond, Presented by Fermentis

447: Building Character in Lagers with 34/70 and Beyond, Presented by Fermentis

Lager yeast is the focus of this spotlight episode, brought to you interuption-free by Fermentis, the experts in fermentation for more than 160 years. Brewers everywhere depend on Fermentis for yeast ...

25 Marras 20251h 4min

446: The Critics Speak! Kate Bernot, Stan Hieronymus, and Joe Stange Glimpse the Future Through Their Favorite Beers of the Year

446: The Critics Speak! Kate Bernot, Stan Hieronymus, and Joe Stange Glimpse the Future Through Their Favorite Beers of the Year

At Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine®, we obviously spend a lot of time thinking about beer—talking to brewers and others in the industry, digging into the details of process, and writing about what we le...

21 Marras 20251h 21min

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