471: Source Material with Firestone Walker: Quality is a Verb

471: Source Material with Firestone Walker: Quality is a Verb

When you look at the top restaurants around the world, no matter what cuisine they may focus on, there’s one commonality they all share, and that’s deep relationships with those who grow and raise the very best ingredients. It’s the same in beer—you can’t be the best at what you do without the meaningful, personal, financial, and long-standing relationships that ensure the brewery has access to the very best quality ingredients. These relationships don’t materialize overnight, but for Firestone Walker, they’re the product of 30 years of work. In this series, we highlight a number of these crucial growers, brokers, and processors who have played a role in the world-class beer that Firestone Walker makes.

*Episode 1: Quality is a Verb *
You don’t get great hops by accident, and the work doesn’t start with selecting them from brokers’ lots. The work starts with breeding the right hop varieties with the perfect mix of aroma and flavor compounds as well as the functional things that make them viable to grow as a commercial crop—disease resistance, robust hop-cone production, lower water and fertilizer needs, and more. Since its inception, Firestone Walker has been involved with the Hop Quality Group—an industry group of craft brewers who work cooperatively to help guide how the growers grow and process hops. In this episode, Firestone Walker Propagator brewer Sam Tierney and friend Patrick Chavanelle, head of R&D for Allagash Brewing, outline the work of this important group in developing new, modern hops that any grower can grow.

Intro music: VintageGroove / Pond5

Jaksot(473)

441: Cask Ale Elegance and Understatement with Bill Arnott of Machine House

441: Cask Ale Elegance and Understatement with Bill Arnott of Machine House

It can be difficult to articulate how to make simple beers extraordinarily well—much comes down to ingredient quality, training and discipline, and the hundreds of small choices a brewer makes through...

17 Loka 20251h 10min

440: Jesse Brown of Formula Slows Down to Make Better Lager and IPA

440: Jesse Brown of Formula Slows Down to Make Better Lager and IPA

The 2024 World Beer Cup was quite a moment for Issaquah, Washington’s Formula. Head brewer Jesse Brown is no stranger to medals, but four in one year at the world’s most prestigious beer competition m...

10 Loka 20251h 15min

439: Ben Howe of Otherlands Manipulates pH and Process in Pursuit of the Perfect Franconian-Style Lager

439: Ben Howe of Otherlands Manipulates pH and Process in Pursuit of the Perfect Franconian-Style Lager

Ben Howe’s brewing career reads more like that of a chef than a typical brewer—stints in Denmark, brewing jobs on both the East and West coasts, weeks spent interning at breweries that intrigued him—b...

3 Loka 20251h 12min

438: Regenerative Malt's Impact From Farm to Brewhouse, Presented by Proximity Malt

438: Regenerative Malt's Impact From Farm to Brewhouse, Presented by Proximity Malt

What is regenerative farming and what does it have to do with beer? In this episode, presented by Proximity Malt, we tackle that question with experts from each phase of the malt supply chain—farmer, ...

30 Syys 20251h 17min

437: Happy Birthday Simcoe! Vinnie Cilurzo and Jason Perrault Look Back on 25 Years of the Groundbreaking Hop

437: Happy Birthday Simcoe! Vinnie Cilurzo and Jason Perrault Look Back on 25 Years of the Groundbreaking Hop

This year marks the 25th birthday of Simcoe, and when Russian River cofounder Vinnie Cilurzo suggested recording an episode of the podcast in Yakima to celebrate it, we weren’t going to say no. Rather...

26 Syys 20251h 22min

436: Blake Masoner of Craft Coast Strives for Excellence Beer After Beer, Taco After Taco

436: Blake Masoner of Craft Coast Strives for Excellence Beer After Beer, Taco After Taco

At Craft Coast in Oceanside and San Marcos, California, Blake Masoner is happy if you show up for tacos and stay for a beer. The fairly priced tacos are scratch-made, down to the tortillas themselves,...

19 Syys 20251h 32min

435: Josh Penney of Threes Brings a Bicoastal Sensibility to Hoppy Lager, Hazy IPA, and More

435: Josh Penney of Threes Brings a Bicoastal Sensibility to Hoppy Lager, Hazy IPA, and More

Before joining Threes, Josh Penney spent the better part of a decade brewing in Southern California, with nearly half of that time at hoppy-lager innovators Highland Park. Now at the helm of Threes in...

12 Syys 20251h 13min

434: Frank Bilello of Noble Savage Lets the Beer Become What it Wants to Be

434: Frank Bilello of Noble Savage Lets the Beer Become What it Wants to Be

The Untappd Community Awards offer an interesting barometer of consumer excitement around breweries and beers, but for Noble Savage in Glen Cove—east of New York City, on Long Island—landing two beers...

5 Syys 20251h 1min

Suosittua kategoriassa Koulutus

rss-murhan-anatomia
voi-hyvin-meditaatiot-2
psykopodiaa-podcast
psykologia
adhd-podi
rss-rahamania
rss-liian-kuuma-peruna
rss-tietoinen-yhteys-podcast-2
rss-valo-minussa-2
kesken
rahapuhetta
rss-narsisti
rss-duodecim-lehti
rss-vapaudu-voimaasi
leikitaanko-laakaria
rss-niinku-asia-on
rss-eron-alkemiaa
rss-arkea-ja-aurinkoa-podcast-espanjasta
dear-ladies
rss-psykalab