About this Episode
Northern Virginia’s Aslin Brewing are brash and outspoken with a no-holds-barred method that’s mirrored of their progressive tackle brewing. They’ve been tinkerers and experimenters from their earliest days brewing on a 2 bbl system, and this 12 months they’re on observe to brew over 5,000 barrels of beer on a small 8.5 bbl system, nearly all of which is canned and bought from their dock as a result of the brewery doesn’t at present have a taproom. On this dialog with Jamie Bogner, cofounders Kai Leszkowicz and Andrew Kelley focus on every part from their collaborative method to competitors (“As a lot because it’s unhappy, we have a look at Untappd day-after-day”), to their processes utilizing hops, including adjuncts, rousing tanks, and even their pricing technique with margins that assist workers, enable them to develop with little debt, and put together for a shakeout within the brewing trade, if it ever comes.
“We are saying that we’re aggressive, and it sounds intimidating, however on the identical time it doesn’t imply that we’re not going to be associates. That we are able to’t work collectively. That we don’t have one thing to be taught from you, otherwise you from us. We’ve by no means mentioned ‘no’ to anyone. We’re nonetheless good folks and good. We’re simply ‘if that is the sector of play, we’re in a recreation proper now, we’re going to win.’ We want to win. We’re out right here to do our greatest and be one of the best at what we do. We’ve undoubtedly not achieved that but, and there are tons of critics which might be prepared to inform us [so], which is nice, as a result of we’re utilizing that as jet gas to proceed our search.”
