A lot of breweries treat barrels almost as a disposable item, replacing them on a regular basis. But as Alex Sakon from ASC Barrels said in our brewery and barrel, brewer roundtable this is a waste of the potential that the barrel represents.
A barrel will become a unique asset with flavours and micro-organisms that will not be found anywhere else in that same ratio. A well-maintained barrel can become a unique asset of the brewery allowing it to produce beers for direct sale and for blending -beer that no other brewery can produce.
Alex was talking during our recent brewer roundtable on barrels with UK craft brewery Wild Beer Co., Croatian craft brewery
Zmajska Pivovara, and Italian craft brewery
Brasseria della Fonte.
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