278: Sweetwater’s Ryan Joy is Dialing in Iconic Alpine and Green Flash IPA Brands… In Colorado

Green Flash’s 2018 bankruptcy rocked the beer world and threw the future of their iconic brands into doubt. Earlier this year, those brands were acquired by Sweetwater, and head brewer Ryan Joy was tasked with figuring out how to brew them on a different brewhouse, with vastly different water, and for an audience with a much different context for beer.

In this episode, he discusses:

• matching the unique, and salt-heavy water of San Diego
• using unusual chlorides, in large amounts
• changing up the yeast to achieve greater haze stability
• adjusting for the efficiencies and increased utilization of the new brewhouse
• shifting hops from the boil to the whirlpool for more aroma expression
• working with crystal malt in West Coast IPA to maintain the classic appeal
• the classic to modern West Coast IPA range
• using terpenes to build unique flavors and aromas in hop-forward beer

And more.

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