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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Episode 473: Source Material with Firestone Walker: Deep Roots and Twisting Bines

Episode 473: Source Material with Firestone Walker: Deep Roots and Twisting Bines

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472: XPA Sensei Scotty Hargrave and Medal-Winning Grasshopper Blake Masoner Go Extra Deep on Extra Pale Ale

472: XPA Sensei Scotty Hargrave and Medal-Winning Grasshopper Blake Masoner Go Extra Deep on Extra Pale Ale

Scotty Hargrave didn’t invent extra-pale ale—he reinvented it, giving the style the definition it had lacked before. Tinkering away on his homebrew kit in New South Wales, he developed the recipe for ...

17 Apr 1h 32min

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...

14 Apr 1h 1min

470: Ryan Allen of Soul & Spirits Summons Unusual Flavors with Traditional Methods

470: Ryan Allen of Soul & Spirits Summons Unusual Flavors with Traditional Methods

Ryan Allen of Soul & Spirits in Memphis loves brewing traditional lager—but when it comes to turning heads at big events like the Great American Beer Festival, he’s not afraid of putting that methodic...

10 Apr 1h 7min

469: How Indeed Uses Data to Make Better Brewery Decisions, in Partnership With Encompass

469: How Indeed Uses Data to Make Better Brewery Decisions, in Partnership With Encompass

This special episode of the podcast is brought to you in partnership with Encompass Technologies, and explores how breweries are using data to create savvier approaches to distribution and growth. It...

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468:  Chris O’Connor of Prost and the Quest for Undeniable Helles and Pils

468: Chris O’Connor of Prost and the Quest for Undeniable Helles and Pils

Chris O’Connor, VP of brewing operations at Prost in Northglenn, Colorado, has built a career on being a process nerd. He spent a decade in engineering for the pharmaceutical industry before switching...

3 Apr 1h 14min

467: Adjusting the Thiol Dial with ISM, Ology, and Berkeley Yeast

467: Adjusting the Thiol Dial with ISM, Ology, and Berkeley Yeast

This special episode of the podcast focuses on adjusting the thiol dial and is brought to you in partnership with the innovative and industry-leading team at Berkeley Yeast. They’ve been on the forefr...

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466: Ryan McCay of Living Waters Finds His Flow in Barrel-Aged Stout and Barleywine

466: Ryan McCay of Living Waters Finds His Flow in Barrel-Aged Stout and Barleywine

Living Waters in Nashville, Tennessee, is a full-service coffee house as well as brewery, and its affinity for strong, well-articulated flavor runs through all the beverages they produce and serve. Re...

27 Mars 1h 8min

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