{"id":250776,"date":"2025-05-21T17:17:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T17:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/recipes\/category-a-b\/beer\/beervana-vignette-13-ken-grossman\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T17:17:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T17:17:36","slug":"beervana-vignette-13-ken-grossman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=250776","title":{"rendered":"Beervana: Vignette #13: Ken Grossman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body-7510013501484547101\" itemprop=\"description articleBody\">\n<i>Brewer vignettes feature quotes from brewers I picked up in my travels around the world.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was an avid homebrewer, starting back in 1969, and brewed through the seventies and ran a homebrewing supply store that I founded in 1976. I had brewed a range of pale ales and when we were thinking about starting the brewery I wanted to do something that was not British, that was American, and wanted to feature American ingredients wherever possible and so chose the Cascade hop as about the only signature American aroma hop at the time. I blended a little bit of brewing technology and history from England with my homebrewing and some US ingredients and came up with pale ale. It was my familiarity with that hop and the distinctive nature of the aroma\u2014the piney citrus\u2014that I appreciated and enjoyed and wanted to incorporate into our pale ale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The following answer was in response to a question I had about the durability of Sierra Nevada&#8217;s Pale Ale. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I\u2019ll take some credit as\u2014I wouldn\u2019t say we invented it, but we certainly focused in on and honed a style of pale ale that had a forward hop profile, which the English styles don\u2019t so much have, and a more robust character, higher bitterness units, and higher alcohol than most of the British pale ales. So I think it\u2019s certainly a variation on a theme\u2014as all beers are, in reality. I mean, you\u2019re brewing with a handful of basic brewing ingredients. We bottle conditioned. 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