267: GABF Gold! Roadmap and Precarious Share Their Approaches to Gold-Medal-Winning Pilsner and Cold IPA

In this special episode of the podcast, we brought together segments with two brewers who both won gold medals at the recent Great American Beer Festival—Dustin Baker of Roadmap Brewing in San Antonio, Texas, and Adrian Garrett, head brewer of Precarious Beer Project in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Baker of Roadmap discusses:

• adjusting the malt bill to build malt flavor in despite brewhouse limitations
• brewing award-winning pilsner with a single infusion mash and no decoction
• building appropriate sulfur character with L28 yeast
• slowing down transfers to be gentle with the beer
• the importance of fresh ingredients
  

and more.

Garrett of Precarious discusses:

• design inspiration for cold IPA
• the flavor contribution of puffed jasmine rice
• cool pooling for smoother hop flavor and aroma notes
• blending old and new with CTZ, Cascade, Mosaic, and Amarillo
• overcoming hop creep with ALDC enzyme
• dry hop biotransformation with 34/70 yeast
• the importance of packaging and transportation of competition beers
  

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