You never know what’s going to be on tap. We have the ability to make 15-barrel specialty batches in Waterbury. Heady will continue to be made in Waterbury, so that leaves Focal and Crusher for here. This new brewery can produce 9,000 barrels per year. Inside the new Alchemist Brewery in Stowe, Vermont. So we were pretty confident that we made great beer, and people agreed. You weren’t going to get a 16-ounce dynamite can of a double IPA anywhere in Vermont. When we started it, we knew there was nothing like Heady Topper available anywhere around us. Did you think this was possible?įrom pretty early on the status that Heady was attaining, even in the days of the pub, was well-documented. There’s not many other brewers that can say they built something like this or could get people to come to a town like this because of one beer. You built this brewery empire on one beer. From the other business owners in Stowe we hear nothing but excitement. We know the impact and what we’re going to give back when we open up. We’re building a totally new facility and creating 24 more jobs and adding vitality to the neighborhood, to the business community here, which is really exciting. We’re not going to consolidate and just make twice as much beer with the same amount of people. That was the big draw about doing this project. That’s going to make Heady Topper forever. With this new location, you’re still keeping the other location? I can tell if a can of Heady has ever been warmed up and re-chilled. It doesn’t like to warm up and get cold again, and that changes the character of the beer. If you let it warm up, well, not all yeasts are the same, but I find that our yeast is very sensitive to temperature change. With that said, it’s also very volatile in the same sense. Over time there’s all sorts of things that happen in that can. With it being unfiltered and unpasteurized, that’s essentially your 16-ounce little keg-conditioned beautiful beer that will evolve and change. But the next day, the day after that, days five, seven, 14 days go by it has a chance to evolve and come into its own in the can. When you put it in a can, I swear that day I take it home it’s good, it’s really good. Right there on the lip of the can, it says to drink fresh. Heady is one of the most sought-after beers in the country, and people come from great lengths to get as much as they can. It drives customers into their stores, and it’s beneficial for all. It’s important to us that it helps these stores a lot. We recognize our impact on the local market, and the Heady Topper where it’s sold now will continue to be available there. It’ll be mixed cases of Heady, Focal and Crusher. We’ll have an allotment of cans for each day, and we’ll make sure that every day that we’re open, the five days that we’re open, you’re guaranteed to get beer. John Kimmich: We’re going to do things a little bit differently this time. Hip hop trio Naughty By Nature was blasting over the impressive sound system, because the brewer wanted to make sure that the music at his brewery is never overpowered by crowd noise.Īll About Beer: After you closed the brewery and cannery in Waterbury to the public, there have been fans clamoring for this new space to open. All About Beer caught up with John Kimmich at the new brewery days before beer was rolling off the canning line. Fully funded by founders John and Jen Kimmich, the 30-barrel brew house, tasting room and gift shop are about 10 miles from where they got their start first with a Waterbury pub and, later, a cannery up the road. This July, the Alchemist Brewery was to open a new space in Stowe, Vermont, where enthusiasts and cult followers can once again pick up the famed double IPA (which is largely credited with spurring the current New England IPA movement) directly from the source. This interview appears in the September issue of All About Beer Magazine.Ĭall this the house that Heady Topper built. These are some heavy hitters and they’ve definitely got us living that #BarleywineLife.The Kimmich family: (left to right) Charlie, John and Jen with their Border Terriers Rico and Cookie. Beers from Central Waters and The AlchemistĪlso on the show this week are beers from Central Waters Brewing Company by way of 4B listener Josh Ruffin. Season 4, Episode 20 – This week, we revisit some IPA from The Alchemist, and enjoy some Central Waters beers from 4B listener Josh Ruffin.ĭoes something about this week’s episode seem oddly familiar? Well, that’s because The Alchemist is on the show yet again! We’re revisiting Focal Banger and Heady Topper since Matt and Greg were absent when we had it on the show the first time.
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