Since that major victory (now almost a year ago), Mike and I have exchanged 807 emails, the vast majority of them hashing-out recipes (the two in-person visits we’ve had probably spared us at least 200-300 additional emails). Near the top of my list was a hoppy wheat beer.Īs you’re probably aware, soon after leaving my job at Stone, I recruited Mike Tonsmeire to work with me on recipe development. When I actually started working on the brewery, I used my most recent list to decide what we’d brew. My lists have evolved as the hardcoreness of my beer geekdom has intensified: from introductory-level craft beers, to high-gravity sledgehammers, to complex sessionish beers, which is where I am now. It’s the subject of near constant threads on BeerAdvocate, and I played the game almost every time. A beer that will likely be a big part of our identity.įrom my earliest days as a beer geek, I’ve thought about the beers I would make if I ever started a brewery. A beer that I think is going to be huge for us. The success: we brewed a really great beer. There is such a constant need to solve major, project-threatening problems that lingering on the rare successes isn’t really an option.īut Modern Times had a major success recently, and I want to dive-in to how it happened. Victories tend to get lost in the endless swirl of stress that characterizes the brewery start-up process.
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