Beer Geek Wednesday

Cali IPA
Today we had the privilege of brewing a new style for us; a California IPA.As the semantics of which Coast and what esoteric modern hop flavours rages, we thought it’d be fun to try something that’...

Thiols - Part 2
Know thiolself. The more we eek out the hidden treasure of these intensely aromatic compounds, the more complex and enhanced our beers may become.While some research has focused on thiols in hops a...

Thiols - Part 1
It’s been a minute between drinks, but today we’re/I’m/we’m pretty excited about Thiols!A couple weeks back we were lucky enough to hang out with our matey mate Nick from @onedropbrewingco. Nick is...

Milkshake IPA
We are in the middle of making our first Milkshake IPA, choosing Lime for balance and nostalgia. And yes, we have been smashing our local grocers for their contingent of Lime Breakas on the weekly....

Cold IPA
The craft world has had a tetchy relationship with lager since it’s inception. Craft beer, in its truest sense, was a rebellion against the blerg macro lagers of old. And that Post Lager Stress Dis...

Evaporation
Is it getting hot in here? Today we are chatting evaporation.One of the sequences during brew day (the production of liquid sugar from cereals), is boiling. Boiling serves many purposes; it sanitis...

Stuck Ferment
Look, I’m the first to acknowledge I'm a bit of a cowboy when it comes to brewing. Fastidious planning, pilot batches and coherent scientific hypotheses are things I love to think about while a cha...

Dip Hopping
With consumers perennial quest for hops, brewers all over the world have devised new and intriguing ways of using hops. Some solutions are inane, while others creep, insidiously through brewing net...

Biofine
Fining, the act of dropping sediment and providing clarity to beer; too far for ultra modern craft, not far enough for old school craft, somewhere in the middle for brewers just living their best l...