Award-Winning Beer Quality with Jonathan Reeves

With Jonathan Reeves at the helm of its brewing program, Port City Brewing in Alexandria, Virginia, established a record as one of the most consistent winners at the Great American Beer Festival, earning 12 medals over an eight-year span, plus Small Brewing Company of the Year in 2015, besides various international honors.

In this 52-minute video course, available to All Access subscribers, Reeves shares his top-to-bottom approach to ensuring technical excellence, from his overarching philosophy down to Port City’s data- and details-oriented methods. Among the topics that Reeves covers:

• The importance of quality ingredients and equipment
  
• Learning from the brewers who came before us
  
• Establishing bulletproof SOPs and brewery protocols
  
• Identifying data points for measuring and fine-tuning
  
• Monitoring dissolved oxygen throughout the process
  
• Airtight beer transfer and packaging
  
• Keeping a beer library to monitor freshness and stability
  

And more, from Kunze to Frederick the Mouse.

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