Our stone-hearth oven, the seasons, and local ingredients will dictate the menu, which will rotate throughout the year. The focus of the Brewlab is the brewery, and itвЂ™s right there for you to see behind glass next to the pub, but they also have a kitchen.В From Executive Chef Adam Stevens: вЂњIвЂ™d describe the menu concept as unabashedly good bar food, the kind of food we like to eat while drinking great beer. On an island, even a big one like Hawaii, high efficiency is particularly valuable. One of the reasons theyвЂ™re using an HEBS at Brewlab is to testВ itвЂ™s viability for use at Kona Brewing in Hawaii, which is also part of Craft Brew Alliance. Learn more about the HEBS technology here. The HEBS employed at Brewlab is the smallest one available from IDD, the company that produces the technology. The flexibility and efficiency of the brewhouse is intended to allow Crandall the freedom to experiment with a wide variety of beer styles and recipes, and to brew more than 100 different beers every year.

So does Crux Fermentation Project in Bend, Oregon and Cochella Valley Brewing in Palm Springs, California. Redhook is not the first Washington brewery to employ such technology: Sound Brewery in Poulsbo uses, in part,В some of the same technology. He says that collaboration with local brewers is part of the plan.ДЄt the Redhook Brewlab, Crandall operatesВ an eight-barrel brewing system that employs a state-of-the-artВ High Efficiency Brewing System (HEBS), which uses a mash filter instead of a lauter tun, enabling significant water and grain conservation, quicker brewing times, and easier batch-to-batch turnover. Instead you will find a constantly rotating selection of Nick CrandallвЂ™s creative concoctions, seasonal beers and specialty beers. No Redhook ESB or Long Hammer IPA, though such beers will be available in bottles and cans. IвЂ™ve been told that you should not expect to find RedhookвЂ™s usual suspects on tap at the Brewlab.

Ultimately, the next generation of RedhookвЂ™s core and seasonal beers will be born at Brewlab.вЂќ вЂњRedhook Brewlab will allow us to experiment and test brewing boundaries, as well as get feedback directly from our guests. вЂњRedhook was built on experimentation and taking risks back in the early 80s,вЂќ said Crandall. Not only because it represents a return to the city from which RedhookВ came, but because it will foster creativity andВ allowВ Redhook to become a more interesting brewery. If the cityвЂ™s original microbrewery is looking to regain relevance in the eyes ofВ craft beer oldsters, and if it is looking to introduceВ itself to the throngs of craft beer newbies, opening the Redhook Brewlab looks likeВ a step in the right direction.

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