罗伯·维德默访谈,第二部分
L上次我们结束时,罗布谈到了威德默的革命性的美国Hefeweizen。在这里,我们将继续与这位兄弟的联合创始人进行更多的问答,并进一步了解威德默在过去25年里的成就。在本期文章中,我们继续询问他旗舰Hefeweizen的历史。
当你为Hefe制作配方时,你有没有注意到哈特酿酒公司(现在的金字塔公司)用他们的小麦麦芽酒做了什么,这是西北部第一个全天候供应的小麦麦芽酒?
罗布·维德默当前位置我们当然知道那瓶啤酒。有点好笑。汤姆和贝丝·哈特韦尔是最初的主人,我们一起花了10美元买了一卡车的麦芽。当地所有的酿酒厂都这样做了。最后我们成了那栋房子的主人。我们会安排装运。每个人都会付钱给我们,然后来取他们的粮食,有时我们会把粮食卖给(他们)。所以我们知道汤姆在做很多事情。我想我们差不多是同时进来的。他们知道我们会这么做,我们也知道他们会这么做。
谁想出了在Hefeweizen里放柠檬的主意?
RW:魏德默·魏岑(Hefe)之前。当我们开始时,我们只做了一个过滤版本。我们做了一个Altbier然后介绍了Widmer Weizen。在80年代中期,这对你们来说可能听起来很疯狂,因为市场变化太大了,但对大多数人来说,有两种啤酒。有淡啤酒,也有黑啤酒。光不是指卡路里的光,而是指经过过滤的金发。然后黑暗意味着亨利的黑暗,或者类似的东西。大多数人都不想喝黑啤酒……你甚至不能让他们尝一尝。而且,我们的Altbier,虽然按照今天的标准并不比(IPA)暗多少,却属于这一类。维德默·魏森很清楚,所以你可以看穿它。它比花蕾、米勒、库尔斯颜色更深,所以人们有点怀疑,但他们会尝试。当他们尝试它的时候,他们尝了尝,他们喜欢它。从那里开始,都柏林酒吧,现在仍然存在,几年前去世的店主卡尔·辛普森,他想让我们为他喝第三杯啤酒。我们有两个发酵罐。我们在做Alt和Weizen。我们买不起第三个发酵罐。但我们知道德国人提供的啤酒是经过过滤或未过滤的,所以我们跳过了过滤,把它卖给了卡尔,改名为赫菲韦岑。这有点让人震惊,因为没人见过像这样的啤酒。因此,它引起了人们的注意,并且在我们进入新市场的今天仍然有效。如果你能引起人们的注意,那就成功了一半。然后,如果你能让他们尝试,历史表明,一旦他们尝试过,他们就会喜欢……或者至少足够多,我们可以坚持25年。
在威德默的早期,像BridgePort和其他一些酿酒商的手工酿酒社区的气质是什么——一个紧密的社区与它今天的变化是什么?
RW如我所说,我们聚在一起分享了大量的麦芽酒。我们都很忙。首先要做的事情之一就是大家聚在一起,去拜访州立法机构,并进行游说,首先,让我们酿造啤酒。所以那里有合作。在俄勒冈州,酿酒商之间一直保持着良好的工作关系。俄勒冈州酿酒人协会是迄今为止全国最好、最活跃、最支持的行业协会。这是一场竞争,但证明了我们一直相处融洽。当我们开始的时候,我们在(西北)14号和洛夫乔伊,不知道13号和马歇尔号的布里奇波特就在那里。这完全是巧合。很酷的一点是卡尔·奥克特是第一个酿酒师,马特·萨奇也是。我们只是和他们一起吃午饭,每隔几个月和他们一起吃午饭。聚在一起反思过去和现在的事情是很有趣的。我记得不久前在另一个州与其他一些酿酒商交谈时,他们说“我们甚至不能在同一个房间里,否则我们会互相争斗。”
关于一个完全不同的话题,你觉得绿色能源如何适合啤酒厂的运营?成本效益高吗?这有意义吗?或者你认为这个想法仅仅与营销相关?
RW我认为酿造是一种真正的绿色努力。我们浪费的大部分是食物。好的酿造方法就是尽可能地利用BTU,重复利用,节约用水……我之前参加过一个研讨会,我们每桶啤酒大约要用4.5桶水,这是我之前没有遵循的,但碰巧是个不错的比例。一般来说,冲泡是非常干净的。特别是威德默,我们大约三分之二的啤酒是在可回收,可重复使用的容器中销售的,也就是小桶。其他啤酒厂的情况正好相反。主要的啤酒厂只生产一小部分啤酒。几乎都装在瓶子里。我们的重点一直是吃水。希望我们的瓶子都能回收利用。 I am a native Oregonian, a native Portlander and I ride my bike to work when I can. I drive a very small used car sparingly and live in a small house because I think that’s the right was to live. Not to get too far off track (laughs), but I think a lot of the problems we’re in right now, as a society, people have been living beyond our means. Ridiculously. People expect to live in gigantic homes and drive humongous cars, and that just wasn’t sustainable. The result is what you see going on around us. Sorry to get off track… But, (with Widmer) we’ve done lots of little things. With the Gasthaus, we were one of the first on board with the Portland Compost Project. Really the only thing that isn’t recycled is some of the plastics that can’t be. We’ve greatly reduced the amount of garbage. It’s a pretty cool process. I don’t know exactly how they were able to do it. We looked at it years ago, and to make it work then, you had to separate proteins out. This meant that the servers had to scrape certain things, but now they can take napkins, bones, meat scraps, cheese, all that..Now the only thing the servers have to separate is the foil butter pack things. So,that’s a pretty cool thing. I looked at solar power and the only way it worked…there were humongous tax credits…I really felt flabergasted. They might have been a little screwed up by this, but the amount of power generated by their proposal was so tiny compared to the cost. Even though in five years, it wouldn’t really cost us anything, as a company. But it costs all of us as tax payers. Willamette Week touched on it, but I have been waiting for someone to say “Wait a minute. Time out. These companies are getting this for free on the backs of tax payers, these tremendous arrays of solar panels at the tax payer’s expense, and what are they getting out of it?” The only thing really, is that you would hopefully be supporting an industry that will continue with breakthroughs where the panels become much more efficient. I was concerned that we would do this and there would be a damning article that said all these companies were really taking advantage of tax payers. It’s interesting that in Germany, where they have a huge solar power industry, the average citizen knows that currently, unless it is heavily subsidized, it really doesn’t make sense. But the average citizen there is willing to pay extra to support it because they know that if it continues, there will be breakthoughs. But here, I don’t think people really know they are paying a premium to pay for these solar panels that these companies are getting. Take away those tax credits, I bet none of those companies would do that. For us, and this still sounds ridiculous, it was a $100,000 investment that the resulting power would light about ten six-foot flourescent light bulbs for a year. $100,000! It was very compelling, because after the first year, half of it was paid for, and by year five, it was free to us, through credits. But I was thinking, “Wait a minute…ad Rob Widmer, tax payer, my tax dollars paid for that and I think I’ve been ripped off.
你在这里使用风能,对吗?
RW当前位置我们有,但不是全力以赴。因为它很贵。现在是经济困难时期。但是,是的,我们的一部分力量是通过这一点。我们是太平洋电力公司,不是PGE。他们称之为他们的蓝天计划。有趣的是,我们一直在做的一些实践,我们只是没有做什么,我们意识到我们确实需要讲述我们的故事。一些大型零售商,如沃尔玛和好市多,问我们“好吧,在我们从你那里购买之前,告诉我们你在做什么是可持续的。”因此,我们正在这个过程中,我哥哥的妻子将这个作为一个项目,当媒体询问或客户询问时,我们会编辑所有的内容……现在我们的网页上也有一个位置。很多事情都在进行,但最酷的事情之一是,我们有一个处理物流的团队,所以当分销商订购啤酒时,这就像空中交通管制一样。我真的不知道该如何描述它,但他们确保卡车装载,并在卡车后部空置的情况下尽可能减少行驶里程。通过一些软件和一些聪明的人,这是难以置信的。
这里是服务器停下来接受我们订单的地方。我选择了Hefe。罗布喝了一杯,所以我想为什么不喝。还有更多…请继续关注…



