This week Skip Schwartz joins me from Weldwerks Brewing to discuss brewing the perfect Hazy IPA.
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Topics in This Week’s Episode (44:23)
- This week I welcome back Skip Schwartz, Head Brewer at Weldwerks Brewing. Skip joins us today to discuss Hazy IPAs.
- We start with a short discussion of some of the new products coming out at Weldwerks.
- Skip provides a description of the Hazy IPA style which is a uniquely American Craft beer style (also called New England IPA).
- We discuss a bit about the history of the style and how it became so popular so quickly.
- Skip starts with the grain bill and explains how it contributes to a permanent haze in the beer. We also talk about how you achieve the “fluffy” mouthfeel.
- Skip explains why water with some Calcium Chloride is important for softening the beer, and how this approach is the opposite of many IPAs.
- We talk about the mash schedule he uses.
- Skip tells us how he achieves the tropical fruit finish through the generous use of whirlpool and dry hops with no boil hops.
- We discuss biotransformations and he explains that they reuse yeast and try to avoid an early dry hop addition for that reason.
- Skip tells us about hop creep and we discuss how they maintain the freshness of their beer once its put into cans.
- We talk about thiol boosting yeast and other thiol enhancing technologies and his experience with it.
- Skip closes with his thoughts on making the perfect Hazy IPA.
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