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The Flash Mash(Post)
By Greig McGill Apologies to any international readers of this humble Brewshop blog who are unfamiliar with the term “flash” in this context. It’s a UK/Aussie/Kiwi-ism, and is often used the same w ...
You and your refractometer(Post)Your refractometer is the perfect instrument for quick gravity measurements on brew-day. With one of these, there is no more need for large sample volumes, no waiting for the wort to cool or correcti ...
Better Lager Brewing(Post)Lagers have a reputation for being tricky to brew, but they don’t have to be intimidating. Sure, they take a little more patience than most ales, but the payoff is worth it - a crisp, clean bee ...
English IPA is Redundant!(Post)By Greig McGill Before craft beer, before the Americans turned everything up to 11, and before most of us had a hobby that many would call liver abuse, there was the India Pale Ale, and it came ...
A Lagery Use-Case for Crystal Wheat Malt(Post)By Greig McGill Courtesy of Gladfield Malt When Gladfield approached me to try using Gladfields’ new CrystalWheat malt, I was intrigued by the possibilities. Crystal malts seem to have been som ...
Brewing Non-Alcohol & Low-Alcohol Beer (NABLAB)(Post)Low- and no-alcohol beer is one of the fastest-growing segments in brewing — but making a great one is anything but simple. From managing fermentation and flavour balance to ensuring microbiol ...
Fermentation Troubleshooting(Post)Yeast, that often highly underrated ingredient we use in brewing – the turner of wort into beer. Sometimes it just doesn’t follow what we have planned for our beer. We’ve all experienced fermentation ...
Sweeten The Deal(Post)By Kieran Haslett-Moore Most of us started our brewing journey with a can of hopped extract, a dusty sachet of yeast under the lid and a bag of sugar. The first lesson most of us learnt was to ditch ...
Beer From The Dead(Post)By Kieran Haslett-Moore Have you ever wondered what beer was like when your great grandparents turned 21? I certainly have. In part that is because my ancestors on both sides of my family were involv ...
A Good Session(Post)By Greig McGill I have always “blamed” the late, great Michael Jackson (the beer writer, not the one with the glove and the predilection for… controversy) for the origin of the term “session beer”.
Something’s Off 2: Electric Boogaloo(Post)By Greig McGill Last time, in the Off Flavour Chronicles: <insert exciting montage of action shots and “eeww” faces here>. What do you mean there’s no budget for that? Bugger.Anyway, to refre ...
It Tastes So Cold!(Post)By Greig McGill Back in the mists of time, a long-running and fun podcast called Craft Beer Radio (now CBR and a lot more casual) wrote a parody sketch (warning, some humour hasn’t aged well, bu ...
