Beer Geek Wednesday

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...

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...

Pellicles are a biofilm produced by microorganisms often seen floating on fermented beverages. They provide a barrier between the liquid and air interface. And while there are a number of theories ...

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...

We take some care with how we handle barrels. Using a “rackenteer” we can softly purge barrels with CO2 and fill under a slight blanket of air free gas. We even had access to a temperature controll...

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...

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...

Spunding valves are devices that go on the blow off arm of the fermenting vessel, and allow users to maintain a precise pressure in the vessel. During fermentation, yeast produce a range of gasses,...

A hybridisation of Cascade and Northern Brewer at the Washington State University breeding programs, it’s unsurprising that Cashmere has this array of amazing flavour. Hybridisation programs are mo...