At Home | Session 03 – Suraj Shenai

At Home with Suraj Shenai | In Ferment: Goa Brewing Co.

Fermentation isn’t just science. It’s storytelling.

Every ferment is a character with its own mood, rhythm, and temperament. Sometimes wild and unpredictable, sometimes patient and subtle. For Goa Brewing Co.—the team behind the iconic Peoples Lager—fermentation is the medium through which they explore personality, time, and a little chaos.

This At Home session invites Suraj Shenai, Founder of Goa Brewing Co. to explore the layered world of fermentation as a way of working with nature—across beer, sake, food, and coffee.

We’ll look at how different cultures have developed distinct microbial traditions: from koji in Japan to underground pit fermentation in Mexico, to the wild, seasonal ferment of cashew fruit in Goa.

Different fermentation traditions, picked up through travels and countless experiments, are being reinterpreted in a contemporary Indian context. This session will be a conversation about working with living systems, listening closely, and designing around the behavior of microbes.

From seasonal beers with eccentric flavor profiles, to the playful bacteria behind a bubbling pickle, to early experiments in coffee, the evening is a multi-sensory dive into what it means to create with microbes and meaning.

We’ll speak about:

The creative and scientific process behind crafting brews

What defines a “wild” vs. “controlled” ferment

The role of terroir and environment

How fermentation is more than technique — it’s a metaphor for cultural, personal, and sensory evolution

And of course, we’ll taste our way through it.

Join us, At Home.

What’s Included:

New tasters from the Goa Brewing Co. lab
A peek into Goa Brewing Co.’s coffee project
Small bites from the PORT Kitchen
Zero-proof beverages from the PORT Bar
At Home canvas tote bag (and maybe a surprise take-home present)