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Barn Town popped up on our radar in 2022, with a number of beers across styles that scored well with our blind panel of judges, but the best of the bunch was their Neon hazy IPA with an impressive score of 98. In our upcoming Spring 2023 issue, focused on IPAs, they did it again with another 98 for their hazy double IPA Stink, Stank, Stunk. So, naturally, we felt the need to ask some questions and understand how they’re making such consistently impressive beers.
In this episode, founder Pete Faber, head brewer Grant Brower, and brewer Cody Guyer cover a range of topics, including:
- updating recipes over the past half-decade to adapt to changing customer tastes
- building stability in hazy IPA with malted oats, wheat, and pilsner malt
- why Citra is “the bacon”—good with everything
- chilling the whirlpool and optimizing for survivables
- dry hopping after crashing to minimize less-desirable flavors
- consistency and variability in hop varieties from lot to lot
- brewing fruited sour beers without gluten-containing grains
- the impacts of thickness and gravity on batch pasteurization
And more.
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