246: Zack Frasher of Slice Brews West Coast and Hazy IPAs that Rip
Zack Frasher loves hoppy beers about as much as he loves exploring new techniques for maximizing their expression. His past decade and a half of brewing—first as a homebrewer then as a pro—has been ma...
8 Jul 20221h 15min
245: Jaega Wise Lowers the Barriers to Making Great Pale Ales and Mixed-Culture Beers
Wild Card head brewer Jaega Wise loves breaking down difficult problems with no-nonsense solutions. An early career in chemical engineering gave her the understanding of brewing mechanics that she use...
1 Jul 20221h 5min
244: Eric Toft of Schönramer Is Fixated on Consistency, Drinkability, and Character
The Private Landbrauerei Schönram is one of the most lauded breweries in Germany over the past 15 years, with a tall stack of European Beer Star and World Beer Cup medals to show for its excellence ac...
24 Jun 20221h 32min
243: Wild Fields Share Their Winning Ways in Everything From Brown Ale to Mixed Cultures
Winning medals isn’t everything in brewing, but it sure can help. Seeking out that external validation from a panel of peer judges is often more frustrating than it is rewarding, but that’s by design....
17 Jun 20221h 14min
242: Jos Ruffell of Garage Project and Phantasm Muses on New Zealand Hops, Thiol Expression, and Dramatic Festival Experiments
New Zealand’s population is smaller than the state of Colorado, but country’s exports have had an outsized impact on craft beer over the past decade. From hops such as Nelson Sauvin, Motueka, and Riwa...
10 Jun 20221h
241: Edward Slingerland Argues that Beer is an Evolutionary Adaptation, not an Accident
The human brain is an amazing piece of machinery. It’s uniquely adapted to success in the world we live in, and the result of that success is evidenced by the population spread of humans across the pl...
3 Jun 20221h 7min
240: Eric Larkin of Cohesion Approaches Lager Expression Through Limitation
Eric Larkin enjoys constraints. Through his brewing career, he’s been drawn to breweries that have set up their own guardrails around the styles of beer they brew—Allagash’s Belgian style focus, or th...
28 Mai 20221h 11min
239: Roaring Table Brews For Elegance, Simplicity, and Texture in Hazy IPA, Pilsner, and Mixed Fermentation
Sometimes success comes quickly, and sometimes it’s the result of years and years of working, training, and improving. In the case of Roaring Table, founded by husband-and-wife team Beth May and Lane ...
21 Mai 20221h 8min
