Kelly Montgomery

Kelly Montgomery


Adjusting Recipes for Different Brewhouses | Video Tip

Whether you’re scaling up, down, or trying the same recipe on a different brewhouse, you may need to make some adjustments. Third Eye co-owner and head brewer Kelly Montgomery explains some specific changes they make for their stouts at their two breweries.

A Double-Fold Approach to Packing Great Chocolate Flavor into Sweet Stouts | Video Tip

Third Eye co-owner and head brewer Kelly Montgomery makes the case for freshly roasted cacao nibs and using real vanilla extract in combination with vanilla beans to capture a rich chocolate flavor in stouts.

Building Flavorful, Award-Winning Stouts with Third Eye | Brewing Course

From layering malts to selecting and infusing adjuncts, Third Eye co-owner and head brewer Kelly Montgomery lays out their medal-winning approach to planning and brewing rich, flavorful stouts.

Recipe: Third Eye Astral Chocolate Stout

From Kelly Montgomery, co-owner and head brewer of Cincinnati’s Third Eye—a frequent medal-winner for their stouts—this richly layered recipe includes a range of flavorful dark malts plus additions of lactose, cacao nibs, and vanilla.

Recipe: Third Eye Lil Astral Chocolate Oatmeal Stout

From Kelly Montgomery and his team at Third Eye Brewing in Cincinnati, here’s a homebrew-scale recipe for a full-bodied stout from their medal-winning program. Lil Astral features oats, lactose, cacao nibs, and vanilla.

Recipe: Brink Duncan Clan Wee Heavy

This recipe from Kelly Montgomery, Brink Brewing’s cofounder and head brewer, and his friend Mike Rodocker won a gold medal at the 2018 U.S. Open Beer Championships.