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John Blichmann joins me this week to debate the evolution of residence brewing tools from the late 1980’s to the present day.
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Matters in This Week’s Episode (55:07)
- This week I welcome John Blichmann to debate how homebrew tools has modified from the late 1980’s to at this time. John is the President and founding father of Blichmann Engineering, a premiere supplier of residence {and professional} brewing tools.
- We begin with a brief dialogue of a few of John’s new tools and what has occurred since he final appeared on the present.
- John explains what his first stove-top brewing setup appeared like.
- We focus on how brewing with malt extract was the dominant type of residence brewing from the legalization of brewing within the US in 1979 till at this time.
- John explains how not solely was the tools restricted but additionally the brewing elements and brewing data was extraordinarily restricted within the late 80’s and early 1990’s.
- He additionally tells us how residence constructed tools cobbled along with elements from the ironmongery store was the norm for the primary 20 years or so, and that professionally made tools was uncommon.
- We discuss John’s leap from working as an Engineer with Caterpillar to beginning Blichmann Engineering within the early 2000’s and he additionally shares his first few breakthrough merchandise that made his enterprise successful.
- In the course of the early 2000’s we began to see extra three tier gravity fed brewing techniques that mimicked to a point what you would possibly see in knowledgeable system, and in addition all grain brewing grew to become rather more widespread.
- Round 2009, residence brewing entered a interval of double digit development that lasted till 2013, and we noticed the rise of numerous business tools suppliers in addition to bigger and extra refined techniques.
- Across the 2014 timeframe, all grain additionally grew to become the dominant methodology in residence brewing for the very first time, and now many brewers don’t brew extract in any respect however leap straight into all grain brewing.
- John tells us about how in the midst of the final decade, cheap chrome steel techniques, most of them imported from abroad started to enter the market.
- Lastly within the wake of COVID in 2019 there was one other sea change in tools with the rise of a lot smaller all-in-one Brew In A Bag (BIAB) type techniques, normally within the 5 gallon (19 liter) measurement or smaller.
- We focus on a few of the put up COVID results together with brewers which can be typically brewing much less, a house brewing market that’s maybe half the scale of its peak from a decade earlier, and in addition social adjustments similar to smaller in-person homebrew membership conferences and smaller social gatherings typically.
- We briefly focus on the place John sees residence brewing going subsequent and John offers his closing ideas on the interest.
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