Broadcast Date: August 7, 2025 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm CDT
Price: FREE for members, $49 for nonmembers

Webinar Summary

In this seminar, we will discuss current trends in the design and brewing of West Coast India Pale Ale. Topics will include the evolution of IPA recipes over the past 15 years; the emergence of contemporary West Coast IPA as a distinctive style from traditional and modern American IPA; the use of advanced and novel hop products in these beers; organoleptic and quantitative approaches to bitterness; hop creep and diacetyl management; hop aroma stability; and yield optimization when dealing with heavy dry hop loads.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the contours of the emergent West Coast IPA style and how it is distinct from and connected to more traditional American IPA.
• Have a firm grasp of the major compositional and material considerations for the development and production of new IPAs for the commercial marketplace