About this episode

John Holl discusses collaboration in brewing with Colorado brewers Andy Parker and Ross Koenigs.

Two for one on this episode as John Holl talks with a duo of Colorado brewers who teamed up to create something special for the upcoming Collaboration Beer Festival happening in the Rocky Mountain state next month. What goes into collaboration, how does it stoke creativity, and what should brewers learn from each other? Andy Parker of Odyssey Beerwerks and Ross Koenigs of Second Dawn Brewing discuss it all and more. This Episode is Sponsored by: Berkeley Yeast Our Tropics yeast is based on a London Ale strain, but we added a new gene to its genome that codes for a unique thiol-releasing enzyme. The enzyme converts the precursors in barley to free thiols that smell and taste like passionfruit and grapefruit. It’s super clean. No off-flavors like burnt rubber or other sulfurous notes. Just tropical aromatics. You don’t have to do anything unusual either, like mash hopping. Just pitch dry Tropics and supercharge your hazy IPA. Dogfish Head Craft Brewery Calling all hop heads! Dogfish Head’s 60 Minute IPA is a fantastically hoppy India Pale Ale that’s beautifully balanced thanks to their unique continual hopping method. Delivering a pungent hop flavor that isn’t crushingly bitter, 60…

People in this episode

Host: John Holl

Guests: Andy Parker, Ross Koenigs

Topics covered

• collaboration
• brewing
• creativity
• beer festival
• Colorado brewers

Keywords

• collaboration beer
• brewing creativity
• Colorado brewers
• beer festival
• Tropics yeast
• 60 Minute IPA

Sponsors

Berkeley Yeast, Dogfish Head Craft Brewery

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Odyssey Beerwerks, Second Dawn Brewing

Products: Tropics yeast, 60 Minute IPA

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