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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448: West Coast Pils Panel Discussion Live From the Brewers Retreat

448: West Coast Pils Panel Discussion Live From the Brewers Retreat

This week’s episode comes from a live panel discussion on West coast pils recorded a few weeks ago at the Craft Beer & Brewing Brewers Retreat in Asheville, North Carolina, and features Khristopher Jo...

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447: Building Character in Lagers with 34/70 and Beyond, Presented by Fermentis

447: Building Character in Lagers with 34/70 and Beyond, Presented by Fermentis

Lager yeast is the focus of this spotlight episode, brought to you interuption-free by Fermentis, the experts in fermentation for more than 160 years. Brewers everywhere depend on Fermentis for yeast ...

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446: The Critics Speak! Kate Bernot, Stan Hieronymus, and Joe Stange Glimpse the Future Through Their Favorite Beers of the Year

446: The Critics Speak! Kate Bernot, Stan Hieronymus, and Joe Stange Glimpse the Future Through Their Favorite Beers of the Year

At Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine®, we obviously spend a lot of time thinking about beer—talking to brewers and others in the industry, digging into the details of process, and writing about what we le...

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445: The Best in Beer 2025 Special, Featuring the Stories Behind the Picks

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It’s one of the most anticipated episodes of the year—our annual peek behind the scenes of the Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine™ Best in Beer issue, as editorial director Jamie Bogner and executive edito...

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444: Mike Foniok of the Establishment Takes an Ultramodern Approach to Mixed-Culture Fermentation

444: Mike Foniok of the Establishment Takes an Ultramodern Approach to Mixed-Culture Fermentation

Sheesh! The Establishment (Calgary, Alberta) has built a reputation over the past few years for taking an unconventional, experimental approach to mixed-culture brewing—as well as many other styles—an...

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443: Grain-to-Glass Brewing with Local and Regional Malt, Live from Alberta

443: Grain-to-Glass Brewing with Local and Regional Malt, Live from Alberta

We recorded this week’s episode live on stage at the Alberta Craft Brewing Convention in Red Deer, Alberta, in early October. The thematic through line is farm-to-glass brewing—something that’s not th...

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442: Fast Fashion Puts Its Foot on the Gas With New Zealand Hops and Extra Anchovy

442: Fast Fashion Puts Its Foot on the Gas With New Zealand Hops and Extra Anchovy

Seattle’s Fast Fashion has built a reputation for modern, forward-looking IPAs and hop-focused lagers, and the characterful brewery and taproom in SoDo expresses the eclectic interests and aesthetic t...

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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...

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