Selvedge Brewing in Charlottesville, Virginia, is happy to welcome Josh Skinner as their new Head Brewer. Skinner involves Selvedge from Champion Brewing, the place he served as Head Brewer and Director of Brewing Operations.
At Selvedge, Skinner is happy to return to small batch brewing. Whereas he has no scarcity of concepts for brand new types and new beers, relating to Selvedge’s flagship beers, he goals to remain true to the basic types which have stood the check of time. High quality and innovation have all the time been paramount to the imaginative and prescient for Selvedge and Skinner seems ahead to constructing on that basis.
Drinkability is on the core of Skinner’s brewing philosophy and he relishes in growing beers that invite one other sip. With Skinner on the helm, Selvedge prospects can stay up for a various faucet checklist. He’s desperate to discover a variety of lagers, totally different types of IPAs, department out into blended and wild fermentation, and proceed to develop Selvedge’s barrel-aging program.
A self-professed “lager nerd,” that is the place Skinner’s ardour lies – from tremendous pale to only shy of a stout – noting that each step in growing a beer is vital. “With a beer, you’ll be able to’t disguise from errors,” he says.
Skinner enjoys incorporating native and regional components into his beers as a lot as doable. A lover of meals himself, he’s energized by the prospect of collaborating with Chef Tucker Yoder who’s Government Chef at The Wool Manufacturing unit, which operates each Broadcloth, an ingredient-driven restaurant, and the taproom of Selvedge.
Skinner grew up within the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and studied archeology at Radford College. His homebrewing pastime was his full-time profession in 2012 when he joined the workforce at Blue Mountain Brewery and enrolled on the Siebel Institute of Know-how, knowledgeable brewing program based mostly in Chicago. He made the transfer to Champion Brewing simply as they have been starting a serious growth and performed a vital position within the brewery’s development for eight years.
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