Shawn Cooper
Co-founder of Halfway Crooks, a brewery known for European-style lagers; involved in developing in-house nonalcoholic beers using arrested fermentation and hop layering strategies.
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Feb 21, 2026 • 60min
460: How Notch and Halfway Crooks Formulate Recipes for Tasty (and Convincing) Nonalcoholic Beer
Shawn Cooper, co-founder of Halfway Crooks known for European-style lagers; and Chris Lohring, founder of Notch Brewing specializing in low-alcohol lagers. They discuss malt and mash tricks for nonalcoholic lagers. They cover hop strategies, bitterness as a beer cue, avoiding tea-like hop notes, and production methods like membrane filtration and arrested fermentation.
