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Video Tip: The Overarching Importance of Water and pH

The pH of wort affects flavor, clarity, hop utilization, and more. Longtime Port City head brewer Jonathan Reeves explains why water and pH adjustment—and measuring it at different steps in the brewing process—is a key to brewing consistently great beer.

Jonathan Reeves Mar 3, 2021 - 2 min read

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With Jonathan Reeves at the helm of its brewing program, Port City Brewing in Alexandria, Virginia, established a record as one of the most consistent winners at the Great American Beer Festival, earning 12 medals over an eight-year span, plus Small Brewing Company of the Year in 2015, besides various international honors.

In this 52-minute video course, available to All Access subscribers, Reeves shares his top-to-bottom approach to ensuring technical excellence, from his overarching philosophy down to Port City’s data- and details-oriented methods. Among the topics that Reeves covers:

  • The importance of quality ingredients and equipment
  • Learning from the brewers who came before us
  • Establishing bulletproof SOPs and brewery protocols
  • Identifying data points for measuring and fine-tuning
  • Monitoring dissolved oxygen throughout the process
  • Airtight beer transfer and packaging
  • Keeping a beer library to monitor freshness and stability

And more, from Kunze to Frederick the Mouse.

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