Guinness Myths
At time of writing it's St Patrick's Day (Happy Paddy's Day), so let's address some myths around Ireland's famous export....
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Malts and Beer Colour
This wintery time of year is more closely associated with darker and richer beers, their fuller body more comforting when...
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The Hop Conundrum - Pt 1
Dry hopping is the process of adding hops to beer whilst it is in the fermentation vessel - sometimes while...
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The Hop Conundrum - pt2
One major issue with dry hopping is quite a new one. Well, sort of. As brewers and beer drinkers alike...
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How brewers carbonate beer
How is beer carbonated? That’s actually a question that has far more answers than you’d think, and to some beer...
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How much did you drink?
With the weather suddenly taking a glorious turn, and with certain sporting events coming alive this summer (I am of...
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Measuring Sourness
Sourness in beer is traditionally associated with ‘off beer’, so it can be a hard sell to people who are...
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How to count yeast
WIthout yeast there is no beer. With this in mind, it’s important for a brewer to ensure that this vital...
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pH in brewing
Brewers use many tools to measure the success of beer production, and one of the most important is the pH...
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How you make a sour beer
As the name suggests, sour beers are beers that are made to taste sour. This sourness can range from a slight...
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How do microbreweries measure alcohol?
Fermentation to produce alcohol is a vastly complex thing. However, simplified to an almost criminal level, yeast consumes sugar producing ethanol....
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How Brewers Use Hops
If you’re reading this, I can probably assume you have a passing knowledge of beer and are therefore vaguely familiar...
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What is Kveik yeast?
Kveik is the given name for a family of yeasts recently made available to brewers all over the world. Whilst...
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