THE SCIENCE OF BEER
How we use the scientific process to improve beer.
Our goal at Patent is to communicate the history, art, and science of beer through our products. Patent will offer a wide variety of beer styles that utilize a combination of traditional brewing and fermentation techniques with new and experimental malts, hops and yeast. In other words, we plan to make modern beers, with a nod to the past.
At Patent Brewing we embrace the science of beer and bring it wholly into our process. We work with our yeast by ensuring our fermentations are microbiologically pure. We experiment with hops to isolate flavor or aromatic compounds to give us an extra boost. We analyze our water to make sure we have the desired balance of ions to emphasize the flavors of all our ingredients. We systematically and scientifically evaluate all steps of the brewing process to ensure we are optimized throughout the production of our products.
“Patent is a brewery and a laboratory. We are here to provide good beer and help other breweries improve their own beer.”
WHAT’S NEW, DIFFERENT AND GOOD?
We’re constantly experimenting. Check out what we’re working on now.
New, different, good. The biggest difference for our brewery is that we are not installing a full brewhouse; we are outsourcing the process of making wort to other breweries. You can think of Patent as a tank farm. Brewers make the wort, our yeast makes the beer.
We are a house of yeast. Our head brewer is a microbiologist and maintains several hundred cultures and is constantly expanding out. The real art and science of beer is in fermentation, blending and packaging. That’s our focus. We take the sugar water / syrup from other breweries and infinitely divide it by fermentation conditions and then blend it back together. The beers will be unrecognizable. No one will know they were all made from the same wort. We can make a pilsner or a complex sour from the same base.
THE PROCESS OF PATENT BEER
We aren’t your typical brewery. At Patent, we take wort purchased from other breweries and turn it into a sudsy masterpiece.
MAKING A PLACE FOR EVERYONE
At Patent, we want to create a space where all people feel welcome and comfortable.
Patent Brewing Co. is a working brewery and taproom in planning in Prince George’s County, Maryland. We are currently searching for a location that will fit our needs. We envision Patent’s taproom to be a diverse and inclusive space where all folks feel comfortable to come and enjoy a few pints.
Even though Patent will not install a full brewhouse, we will be a working brewery. Customers can expect to see fermentation vessels, brewing equipment, and oak barrels as part of the decor of the tap room. We will offer tours of the brewery space on weekends for those who want more information or to see the brewery up close.
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