John Palmer joins me this week to discuss brewing smoked beer styles including Grodziski, Rauchbier, Rauchweizen and two recent collaborations he did with local breweries.
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Topics in This Week’s Episode (26:28)
- This week I welcome back John Palmer. John is the author of the top selling book How to Brew as well as Water and Brewing Classic Styles (full disclosure: Amazon affiliate links used for books). John joins me this week to talk about water in beer.
- We start with a short discussion on John’s current brewing projects.
- Next we dive into the Grodziski, which is a historical Polish beer style made with smoked malt. John tells a bit about this style.
- We next discuss smoked base malts and the history behind smoked malts. Prior to the 1700’s, almost all malts were dried and kilned over wood, but malting evolved significantly with the introduction of coke fired malting in the 1700’s and introduction of lighter malts including pale malt.
- John talks about some of the other major beer styles that use smoked malt including Rauchbier, Rauchweizen, Rauchbock and Smoked Altbier.
- John talks about two smoked beer collaborations he did recently starting with Smoked Altbier. We discuss the recipe and also how it turned out.
- Next we move to a Grodziski collaboration beer that John did including the grain bill and hop schedule. Again John tells us how this turned out.
- John shares some of the lessons he learned from his smoked beer collaborations.
- John shares his closing thoughts.
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