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Hop Handling 101(Post)
By Greig McGillHops are, for all intents and purposes, the mascot of the craft beer revolution. While there are plenty of beer aficionados who are not hop-heads, the loudest, proudest, and certainly ...
Caught on the Hop(Post)By Greig McGill Americans, eh? They really can drive innovation, can’t they? In the relatively short space of 35ish years, the world has moved from mocking beer from the USA with the famous “making ...
Inspired to Brew?(Post)By Greig McGill Despite “the never-ending events”, this year seems to have flown by, and I’m struggling to deal with the fact that the holiday season is almost upon us. My brain has turned to mush ...
A Sparge By Any Other Name...(Post)By Greig McGillFollowing on from the last post, sparging - rinsing of residual sugars from the mash bed using hot water - can be accomplished by various methods. The goal is the same. The brewer want ...
The Perils of Opening a Brewery(Post)The Perils of Opening a BreweryBy Greig McGill“Living the dream, mate!”That’s got to be the most common phrase said to me since I took the plunge, left my job in IT, and shifted Brewaucracy from an e ...
The Biggest Ingredient - Part One(Post)By Greig McGill Well, I can’t put it off any more! The Brewshop.co.nz team has been asking me to write this article for … far too long now. I’ve put it off because, no matter how much I think I kno ...
Bold Beers to Brew Beyond Hazys & Light Lagers(Post)Here at Brewshop we have the honour of sending out loads of your beer recipes every week. From full sacks of malt, to many crushed grain bills, hops and yeast. In the process we get to see what's tre ...
This Isn't Harry Potter: No More Butterbeer!(Post)By Greig McGill I am not easily surprised or shocked these days. I’m getting on a bit you see, and have been firmly in the “beer nerd” camp for over a quarter of a century, and a brewer (both home ...
Join The Club(Post)By Greig McGill I was listening to a podcast while cleaning in the brewery the other day, and a question from a New Zealand listener came in asking about, or rather bemoaning the lack of, homebre ...
Resource Round-Up(Post)By Greig McGill Often when judging homebrew competitions, I’m surprised by the “repeat offenders” - that is to say, the entries from brewers who have been brewing a while who are st ...
Batch Scaling - The Long And The Short Of It(Post)By Kieran Haslett-Moore I have brewed beer on a wide range of sized kits in my time. From 20L to 2500L, the essence of the process is the same. However, there are obvious, and perhaps some less obvio ...
Nobody Likes a (Hop) Creep(Post)By Greig McGill There’s been a lot of buzz over the last few years about the supposedly newly discovered phenomenon of hop creep. In fact, hop creep has been a known factor since 1893! But now that ...
