When Jeremy Kosmicki was promoted off the Founders packaging line to the brewhouse within the early 2000’s, he relished the chance to leap from homebrewing to their 30bbl brewhouse. Over the previous 20 years, he’s overseen the brewing program whereas the brewery skilled outstanding development—launching pivotal manufacturers like All Day IPA, scaling manufacturing by orders of magnitude—and since Founders was absolutely acquired and merged into Spanish brewer Mahou San Miguel in early 2023, he’s taken on a good bigger function working with the brewing workforce at Avery.
On this episode, Kosmicki discusses the beers necessary to Founders, and the way they make them. The dialog touches on:
- brewing considerations for packaged beers saved in quite a lot of circumstances
- growing All Day IPA and constructing physique and expression in a small hoppy beer
- implying physique and sweetness with strategic use of adjuncts
- mash hopping for extra nuance
- dry hopping All Day IPA throughout lively fermentation
- resisting, then growing a hazy iteration within the All Day household
- coming late to Citra hops
- balancing flavors in massive barrel-aged beers
- utilizing espresso in beer
- testing superior hop merchandise
- piloting once more on a brand new 1bbl system
And extra.
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