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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423: Integrating Used and New Equipment in Brewery Design with Big Grove and First Key

423: Integrating Used and New Equipment in Brewery Design with Big Grove and First Key

It’s no secret that the craft-brewing industry is facing headwinds, and with that comes brewery closures and a flourishing used-equipment market. But as we all know, buying and integrating used equipm...

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422: Vincent Ménard of Messorem Searches for Brash Balance in Sweet and Sour IPA

422: Vincent Ménard of Messorem Searches for Brash Balance in Sweet and Sour IPA

Montreal’s Messorem strikes an urban pose—the old factory building in a gritty industrial zone is covered with graffiti, and looks more likely to hold underground raves than contemporary brew days. Bu...

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421: Gabriel Dulong Is Fermenting a Culture of Innovation at Quebec Craft Stalwart Boréale

421: Gabriel Dulong Is Fermenting a Culture of Innovation at Quebec Craft Stalwart Boréale

There was a time in Boréale’s not-so-distant past when they might have released a new beer every other year. The brewery is one of Quebec’s oldest craft breweries, dating back to the late 1980s, and o...

27 Kesä 20251h 6min

420: “High Notes”—Abstrax Presents Episode #420 With Highland Park and Hop Butcher

420: “High Notes”—Abstrax Presents Episode #420 With Highland Park and Hop Butcher

Episode 420! It’s an auspicious number that we couldn’t let pass without commemorating in some significant way, and our friends at Abstrax have joined us to bring you this partner podcast interruption...

24 Kesä 20251h 11min

419: Jean-Phillippe Lalonde of Silo Finds Fullness and Expression in Continental-Style Lagers and Kölsch

419: Jean-Phillippe Lalonde of Silo Finds Fullness and Expression in Continental-Style Lagers and Kölsch

Don’t tell Jean-Phillippe Lalonde of Silo that craft lager is a “new” trend—he’s been brewing small batches for Montreal drinkers for nearly 15 years. Opened two weeks before COVID shutdowns in 2020...

20 Kesä 202558min

418: Faster, More Reliable, More Consistent—Dialing In Hot-Side Process Improvement and Optimization

418: Faster, More Reliable, More Consistent—Dialing In Hot-Side Process Improvement and Optimization

The focus of this spotlight episode is hot-side process improvements that will make your brew day quicker, more reliable, and more consistent. We get into the nitty-gritty of tank jackets, grist hydra...

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417: Ryan Allen of Macallen Is a Farmer with a Brewing Problem

417: Ryan Allen of Macallen Is a Farmer with a Brewing Problem

Estate-grown barley, hops, and fruit are the engines that power the beers at Macallen Farm and Brewery, and multigenerational farmer (and brewery founder) Ryan Allen embraces agriculture as a creative...

13 Kesä 20251h 5min

416: Derrick Robertson of BreWskey Narrows His Hop Palette to Explore the Variations Within Varietals

416: Derrick Robertson of BreWskey Narrows His Hop Palette to Explore the Variations Within Varietals

Before he took the leap and started his own, BreWskey cofounder Derrick Robertson was a process engineer who helped design breweries. That background was invaluable when building out a brewhouse and c...

6 Kesä 20251h 5min

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