Todd Ashman

Signature

Todd's signature beers include Eclipse Imperial Stout, Golden Ale, Trippel, Foggy Goggle White, and Concentrated Evil. A signature set like this shows range through the beer itself. Eclipse Imperial Stout occupies the dark, strong side of the work. Golden Ale and Trippel point to structure, balance, and recognizable recipe identity. Foggy Goggle White, described as an interesting Belgian Wit from Todd Ashman, brings a pale, wheat-driven, Belgian-style register into the same record. Concentrated Evil adds another named beer to a brewing practice best read through production choices and repeatable outcomes.

In Their Words “I do though very much look forward to the challenges ahead at Flossmoor Station. Reacquainting myself with the Chicago beer scene and getting the beers firing on all cylinders.” “I will still have QC oversight and will be an acting consultant for all matters beer for the FiftyFifty team.”

The Recognition Barrel-aged stout carries technical expectations in American craft beer: density without collapse, wood without blur, and strength without losing the beer’s shape. Eclipse is the named beer that places Todd Ashman inside that production conversation. The specialty is barrel aging, where patience, vessel judgment, and repeatability have to work together. Intensity is not the whole measure. The craft is deciding when time should deepen a beer, when structure needs protection, and how wood, roast, strength, and finish can stay in balance. Recognition here is tied to practice rather than presentation. The relevant work is the relationship between recipe and process: a beer designed in the brewhouse, then carried through the longer arc of barrel aging without losing its intended identity.

The Work

Behind It Golden Ale and Trippel, named alongside Eclipse Imperial Stout from the same Truckee producer, show another part of the brewing record. They are not secondary because the darker beer carries more attention; they mark recipe work across styles and a brewer building more than one kind of beer. Foggy Goggle White adds a separate register. Described as an interesting Belgian Wit from Todd Ashman, it places the work in pale, wheat-driven, Belgian-style territory rather than imperial stout. Taken together, Eclipse, Golden Ale, Trippel, and Foggy Goggle White give a compact map: barrel aging on one side, recipe identity on the other, and production brewing as the practice connecting them. Production brewing is where a recipe proves itself. An idea has to become repeatable, clear, and stable enough to remain itself batch after batch. Ashman’s record is framed by that demand: the beer has to work, and then it has to keep working.

The Road The Flossmoor note is production language: "I am headed back to Flossmoor, IL to start Flossmoor Station’s production facility." He added, "This is exciting for me as I get to ‘finish what I started there’ so many years ago." The Chicago connection is also stated in working terms: "I do though very much look forward to the challenges ahead at Flossmoor Station. Reacquainting myself with the Chicago beer scene and getting the beers firing on all cylinders.Continuity with FiftyFifty is described as technical responsibility: "I will still have QC oversight and will be an acting consultant for all matters beer for the FiftyFifty team." That is the trade register of oversight, consultation, and keeping the beer aligned with its intended form.