Cleaning

Cleaning

Cleaning; it’s not too sexy but it’s the overwhelming majority of what we spend our time doing. If you don’t love cleaning or at least, if you can’t stand it, brewing is probably not for you. We’ve all had it, that beer that (unintentionally) smelt like feet. A wild...
Diacetyl

Diacetyl

Butterscotch, buttery, caramel, microwave popcorn. Sounds good right? Wrong! Diacetyl, the compound that gives these flavours, is perhaps the second most common “fault” I see in beer in Australia. One of a family of chemicals called vicinal diketones (you might see it...