Pilsners and pH with Max Shafer – BeerSmith Podcast #301

Max Shafer joins me this week to debate Craft Pilsners, decoction and controlling the pH of your beer throughout the whirlpool and for dry hopping.

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Subjects in This Week’s Episode (40:41)

• This week I welcome Max Shafer. Max is the brewmaster at Roadhouse Brewing in Jackson Gap, Wyoming. Max was beforehand the brewmaster at Grand Teton brewing. Max sits on the Hop Analysis Council, he’s the Idaho Ambassador for the Hop High quality Group, a Bracht Brewer for NZ Hops and an affiliate member of The American Malting Barley Affiliation. Max is a graduate of the Siebel Institute Worldwide course in Munich and has over 10 years expertise as a Skilled brewer.
• Max tells us how he obtained into brewing and ultimately grew to become the pinnacle brewer at Roadhouse.
• We briefly talk about the Hop Analysis Council and a number of the different hop teams Max is concerned with.
• Max dives into Craft Pilsners and his Highwayman Pilsner and what makes it distinctive.
• We talk about how he does a single decoction on a big 30 barrel industrial brewing system.
• Max additionally talks about his West Coast pilsner and what makes it totally different from European types.
• We begin a dialogue about pH, beginning with how he prefers to regulate his mash pH.
• Max shares his strategies for adjusting pH each throughout the whirlpool and in addition for dry hopping and a number of the advantages controlling pH all through your entire fermentation course of gives.
• We talk about a number of the different Roadhouse beer choices in addition to the place you could find their beers.
• Max shares his closing ideas on each Pilsners and pH.

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