Services - Recipe Development & Scaling - Dialing in recipes for production brewhouses
Designing Beers for Your System From First Concept to Production-Ready
Great recipes are more than grain and hops—they're tuned to your water, your equipment, and the people drinking your beer. I work with breweries to design new beers and refine existing ones so they're both expressive and repeatable on real brew days.
What Recipe Development & Scaling Covers
Whether you're building a new flagship, polishing a seasonal, or trying to make a stubborn beer behave, recipe work is about aligning ingredients, process, and equipment.
- • New recipes for core, seasonal, and specialty releases
- • Translating pilot batches to production volumes
- • Tuning grist, mash schedules, and kettle profiles
- • Yeast selection, pitch rates, and fermentation strategy
- • Water chemistry for style and house character
- • Documentation your team can actually follow
New Concepts, Existing Beers, and Problem Batches
Some breweries come with a rough idea or flavor target; others already have a beer in the market that isn't landing the way they want. Both are good starting points.
We can:
- • Shape a new beer around your identity, taplist, and market
- • Refine an existing recipe that doesn't feel consistent or expressive enough
- • Diagnose where a problem beer is drifting: brewhouse, fermentation, or packaging
- • Bring wild, mixed-fermentation, or Jun concepts into a stable production lane
Built for Your System, Not a Generic Template
The same recipe behaves differently on a 5 BBL direct-fire system than on a 20 BBL steam system with different lauter geometry, water, and cellar. My work is to design recipes, mash and boil profiles, and fermentation plans that respect how your brewhouse actually runs.
That often means:
- • Adjusting grist for your mash tun and lauter behavior
- • Calibrating hop timing and rates to your kettle and whirlpool
- • Pairing yeast choice with your tank geometry and temperature control
- • Matching carbonation targets to your draft and packaging setup
How Recipe Projects Typically Run
We usually start by talking through the beer: what you want it to be, where it sits on your taplist, and what your system looks like. From there, I'll propose an approach— new recipe, refinement, or a more structured diagnostic run.
You'll receive a working recipe, process notes, and adjustments as we learn from real batches. The goal is a beer your team can brew confidently and consistently, not a one-off that only works when everything is perfect.