Once derided as cheap adjuncts, sugars have become useful, flavorful tools for today’s creative brewers.
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For the past decade, Denver’s River North Brewery has pushed the limits of fermentation with ultra-high-gravity beers, and in this episode they share insights into building balance and refinement in very, very big beers.
From founder-brewer Jonathan Thibault at La Ferme in Shefford, Quebec—a rural brewery about 60 miles east of Montreal and 35 miles north of Vermont—here’s the recipe for a tart wheat beer that features nearly two kilos of a beloved local produce: haskap berries, aka camerise.
This juicy berry from the North has many names and much potential, rising from relative obscurity to become a tasty superfruit worthy of a leading role.
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The former Blackberry Farm Brewery in Maryville, Tennessee, is now known as Peaceful Side, but they continue to brew Classic Saison the way it was envisioned: with Wallonian inspiration and a slight Southern accent.
The team at Peaceful Side in Maryville, Tennessee, shares the process behind the Blackberry Farm Classic Saison—including how they work with a notorious finicky yeast strain.
Based on an early 19th century recipe, this might well have been the kind of thing locals would’ve drunk fresh from the keller. It includes an older technique called hopfenrösten, which means the brewers boiled the hops separately in a small amount of wort.
After decades leading yeast and quality programs at some of the biggest breweries in the Western Hemisphere, Casey retired to work on his passion project: telling the story of American lager brewing from the 1830s to the present.