Jordan: Brewing requires both gut instinct and science due to crop variations
Kim Jordan · Live Episode! New Belgium Brewing Company: Kim Jordan · Sep 10, 2018 · at 19:05
Kim Jordan, co-founder of New Belgium Brewing, explains why commercial brewing recipes must adapt to changes in raw agricultural ingredients.
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“One of the things that I always want to remind people, though, is that beer is food. It's an agricultural product, and so you have changes in the characteristic of a hop, or the malt bill because, you know, it was a wet It was a dry year, so it really is an art form that takes both the ability to have a gut instinct and a scientific mind.”
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