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’...
Dextrins & Brettanomyces
Been a while, you’re looking well. This week we put our first long term sour in barrels, so I figured it’s time to talk Dextrins and Brettanomyces.We wanted to produce a complex golden sour with lo...
Mashing
Mashing is the process of combining the milled grain, together with water, to breakdown complex molecules into simple components that can be consumed by yeast. Without mashing, the malt would be to...
High Gravity Brewing
There’s high gravity brewing and then there’s high gravity brewing, and of course high gravity brewing. Our 11.5% behemoth is somewhere on the high gravity brewing side of that spectrum. All natura...
West Coast IPA
Before East Coast was imposed on the brewers vernacular, West Coast was simply “American IPA”. American IPA all started at Anchor Brewing in San Fran, where the guys wanted to make an English IPA w...
Rye Malt
Like wheat and oats, and unlike barley, rye is husk-less. It is also high in gums, and as the compound suggests, is incredibly sticky when used at high concentrations. Together, these elements of r...
Red Malt
Malts come in all shapes and sizes. Malted grains (barley, rye, wheat and oats) are the raw cereal that has been partially germinated. This process stimulates the production of enzymes that break d...
Small Batch Beer Needs Small Batch Malt
From the species of barley, to the manner in which it is dried and then malted, you can get an impressive array of base malt. Luckily for us, Australia and New Zealand have some world class small b...