Beer Geek Wednesday

American Stouts, about as necessary for these Brisbane climes as a three test League series against England. Nonetheless, t'was our Yankee mates that looked at British Stouts and said “you know wha...

Black IPA; not quite the malt profile of a stout, not quite the clean hop profile of an IPA. Sounds a bit shit, and mostly they are, but for some reason people drink them, so here we are, staring a...

Whoa, you guys are looking well. Apart from mucking about in boats, lately we’ve played around with some fresh hops.Most commercial hop crops flower once per year, in late summer. As the flower of ...

Hello old fren. It’s been a while. You’re looking well. Me, oh nothing really, just smacking a bunch of Raw Beers. On the cards this week was a Raw Oatcream, focused on a new hop variety from the l...

This week we’ve been feeling pretty bitter. In the relentless pursuit of hop intensity we have been playing around (exceptionally unscientifically) with dry hopping at different concentrations, sta...

What makes a beer style; where science, semantics, marketing and history collide. With brewers so readily pushing envelopes, there’s never been such a rapid development of beer styles, as there is ...

We want to make every beer, well. But Westies are absolutely our go to. You see, when we first got into good beer, during the lupulin threshold shift of the early 2000s, the race was on to double d...

This week we were incredibly lucky to have a play with @yakimachief new flowable hop extract - YCH 702.These extracts are created by passing supercritical CO2 through a matrix of hop pellets. At mo...

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’...