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Video Tip: Blending Your Team to Taste and Blend Barrel-Aged Barleywines

When it’s time to pull nails and evaluate components for blending, New Image’s Brandon Capps recommends including tasters who are less familiar with the style, while also ensuring that tasting happens blindly and individually.

Video Tip: Finishing on Wood to Deepen the Flavors of Barrel-Aged Beers

Brandon Capps, founder of Colorado’s New Image Brewing, explains how adding different types of new wood to barrel-aged barleywines can add depth and freshen their flavors before packaging.

Video Tip: Brewing Smoky Grodziskie with 100 Percent Wheat

Jan Chodkowski, head brewer and co-owner of Denver’s Our Mutual Friend, highlights the challenges and rewards of mashing, brewing, and drinking their all-wheat grodziskie.

Video Tip: Harnessing Macro-Oxidation to Accelerate the Aging of Barleywines

Brandon Capps, founder of Colorado’s New Image Brewing, explains how they use a Madeira-inspired “estufagem” process to intentionally give barleywine a head start in the aging process.

Video Course: Building Big Barrel-Aged Barleywines with New Image

From selecting malts with intention to deploying Madeira-inspired macro-oxidation, finishing on different woods, and blending to taste, New Image founder Brandon Capps outlines a technical approach to crafting characterful barrel-aged barleywines.

Video Tip: The Challenges and Quirks of Brewing Smoky Stjørdalsøl

Jan Chodkowski, co-owner and head brewer at Denver’s Our Mutual Friend, describes the rustic malting process and brewing considerations behind strong, intensely smoky Stjørdalsøl—a Norwegian farmhouse style that they brew once per year.

Video Tip: Working with Modern Kit and Ingredients to Dial In Old-Fashioned Beers

Our Mutual Friend co-owner and head brewer Jan Chodkowski outlines several things to consider when working with today’s equipment and ingredients to craft tasty yet historically grounded beers.

Video Tip: Brewing Beers from the Past with What You Have Today

From sourcing old-fashioned ingredients to aiming for authentic flavor, Our Mutual Friend head brewer Jan Chodkowski outlines an approach to brewing historically inspired beers in a modern craft brewery.

Video Course: Brewing Historically Inspired Smoked Beers with Our Mutual Friend

Jan Chodkowski, head brewer and co-owner of Denver’s Our Mutual Friend, outlines his approach to brewing historically inspired, highly drinkable, smoke-forward beers.

Video Tip: Why American Two-Row is the Malt of Choice for Cold IPA

Kevin Davey of Heater Allen and Gold Dot Beer explains the science behind why domestic two-row pale malt is ideal for pairing up with rice or corn for a crisp, cold IPA whose flavors will last longer.