From struggling taprooms to slumping big-brand lagers, there aren’t a lot of success stories in the beer business of late. Overall production and ...

Summer. Heat waves. Heat warnings. Smoke warnings. Drought. We got it all. Including sugar snap peas. I’ve adoped the Canadian old fart posture this ...

This week I take a close look at hop sensory data which these days is often published on a “spider chart” by the major hop suppliers. Armed with ...

This week I cover the formal definition of an International Bitterness Unit (IBU) widely used in beer recipe design, but also present some of its ...