Lagering Takes Six Weeks.
Why the beer costs what it costs, told by somebody who has thrown a batch away and would like to explain the reasoning.
What it is about.
A tank doing a proper lagering is a tank not turning over a faster beer, and the arithmetic of that is the single largest input into the shelf price. The episode does the sum on air.
It also covers the first batch, which went down a drain. That decision is easy to describe as integrity after the fact and was, at the time, a large number written off by people who were not certain they were right.
The barley comes from the farm. The episode is careful about which products that is true for and which it is not, because the distinction matters and is the sort of thing that gets fudged.
Where things are in it.
Timestamps are in the feed as chapter marks, so an app that supports them will let you skip straight to the bit you came for.
What lagering is
Weeks, cold, and nothing to look at.
The tank arithmetic
Why time in a vessel is the price.
The batch that went down a drain
And how long the argument took.
Which products use farm barley
Named, one by one.
The details.
Episode 03
- Title
- Lagering Takes Six Weeks
- Published
- 9 June 2026Fortnightly, on a Tuesday.
- Length
- 48 min
- Guest
- The head brewerHawkstone
- Listens
- 29,441To 30 August 2026.
Access
- Transcript
- Published with the episodeSearchable.
- Download
- YesIt is an audio file.
- Cost
- NothingNo tier, no early access.
- Chapter marks
- YesThe four above, in the feed.
Every broadcast and every episode described here is illustrative. This is an unofficial demonstration build: no recording exists, nothing streams, and no guest named on this site has agreed to anything.
Who is on it.
The head brewer
Hawkstone
Wittering
Fortnightly, Tuesdays, no sponsors, and the transcript published with every episode.
Where this goes next.
Almost every episode has a written counterpart, because an argument that only exists in audio is an argument nobody can quote.
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