Jamie Bogner

Brewers outside New Zealand tend to associate its hops with IPA, but for more than 30 years, Kiwi brewers have been making their own kind of pilsner using the homegrown harvest. In this episode, the head brewer at Mount—home of the award-winning Mountie Pilsner—shares to keys to finding balance and drinkability in a cool-pooled, dry-hopped lager of 45 IBUs.

This fifth-generation hop farmer has watched craft beer pull New Zealand’s hop-growing industry back from the brink, and today he and his team are using experience, data, and more sophisticated tools to optimize their varieties for the different types of brewers who use them.

The molecular biologist and head of R&D for New Zealand’s Garage Project has spent his career studying yeast and coaxing them to work in more effective ways. Today, he’s working on everything from refined thiol expression to better mouthfeel and malt expression in nonalcoholic beers.

Is it the hop variety that matters most? Or when it’s picked? The soil it’s grown in? How it’s fertilized and irrigated throughout a season? Or something else? These two preeminent researchers—one from the States, one from New Zealand—debate the relative impacts of various factors on hop flavor and aroma.

In this clip from their webinar, Breakside brewmaster Ben Edmunds and experts from Berkeley Yeast discuss how the fermentation flavors from maltose-negative yeast strains help make nonalcoholic beers that don’t taste like NA.

The founder and head brewer for Garage Project in Wellington, New Zealand, is tackling more than just brewing these days. Garage Project’s team is breaking the fourth wall, investing in the Hāpi Research partnership with hop grower Freestyle—all for the sake of deeper hop flavor.

Earlier this week, Brewing Industry Guide All Access subscribers received Kate’s latest article about how commonly shared economic and sales data for beer may not be painting an accurate picture. On this episode, she shares perspectives behind that story and insights into how craft brewers are bucking some prevailing trends.

If a beer is 5 percent ABV or less, can you really call it an IPA? You might, if you’re subject to Utah’s peculiar alcohol regulations—ultimately, though, it's the award-winning flavor and aroma that absolve the pale little “lies” told by the Park City prodigies at Offset Bier.

Brian Hutchinson of Cannonball Creek, Jake Gardner of Westbound & Down, and Phil Joyce of Amalgam discuss the similarities as well as points of difference in their award-winning approaches to brewing West Coast–style IPA.

Mark Rubenstein and Spencer Guy of Louisville, Kentucky’s Atrium Brewing share the creative fuel and technical process behind their high-scoring stouts and crowd-pleasing fruit-forward quick sours.