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As a brewer, it’s important to stay on top of the latest craft beer trends and brewing techniques. Staying on top of these trends allows you to come up with new products that beer enthusiasts gravitate towards.
From understanding new hop variety flavor profiles to the latest tips on how to make your IPAs more robust – the team of Ollie makes it easy to stay on top of everything new in the craft beer scene.
The Ollie team frequently interviews some of the best and well known brewers in the industry to come up with brewing tips that will truly help your products reach their fullest potential. Ollie understands brewing – the software was built by a brewer and many of the team are brewers themselves!
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Our Best Brewing Tips Content
Our team has handpicked some content and guides on the latest in craft beer to make sure you and your brewery stay in the loop.
August 28, 2024
ESB: Experts from the U.S. and U.K. Share How to Make a Great One
By: Giovanni Albanese
Extra Special Bitter (ESB) is an enigma, lost in translation as it traversed the Atlantic Ocean from the U.K. to the U.S. Over the years, ...
August 12, 2024
Pomona Yeast: Packs a Stone Fruit Punch for Hop-Forward Beers
By: Giovanni Albanese
Every brewer understands the importance of happy, healthy yeast and making solid pitches to get a quality finished beer. Beyond the process, yeast can significantly ...
July 29, 2024
Rice Lager: A Simple Recipe Achieves Phenomenal Results
By: Giovanni Albanese
It’s no secret that light lagers are gaining traction within craft beer trends. The style has even climbed up Untappd’s Year in Beer charts, ranking ...
July 22, 2024
How Berkeley Yeast LNA Strains Improve Your Non-Alc Beers
By: Giovanni Albanese
At the start of the year, we wrote about the trends to expect in 2024, including the growing non-alcoholic beer segment. Bump Williams Consulting President ...
June 12, 2024
Amplifire™ Fresh Hop Oil: Everything You Need to Know
By: Giovanni Albanese
We’ve written ad nauseam about improving yield efficiency to help the bottom line. Companies globally are creating a seemingly countless number of hop innovations to ...
June 6, 2024
Blonde Ale or Golden Ale: The Keys to Perfecting the Style
By: Giovanni Albanese
With the summer season, lighter craft beers have gained traction and popularity among brewers and consumers. We’ve written about several more crushable beer styles that ...
June 4, 2024
American Pale Ale: Experts Share Secrets to Brew a Great One
By: Giovanni Albanese
Hop-forward beers dominate the craft beer industry from a consumer perspective, as evidenced by IPAs topping the charts of the latest Untappd Year in Beer. ...
May 31, 2024
2024 Australian Hop Report: Everything You Need to Know About Galaxy, Vic Secret
By: Giovanni Albanese
There are many wildly popular hops in the Southern Hemisphere, including Australia’s Galaxy, Vic Secret, and Eclipse, to name a few. Brewers in the U.S., ...
May 30, 2024
Abstrax Hops Quantum Series: Why Every Brewery Should Have It
By: Giovanni Albanese
Numerous companies worldwide are working towards creating products that help make the brewing process more efficient while also saving brewers and brewery owners money. For ...
May 22, 2024
Kölsch: Brewers Explain Best Methods to Make a Great One
By: Giovanni Albanese
We’ve covered a number of classic old-world beer styles that originated in Germany—Märzen, helles, Berliner weisse, and schwarzbier—to name a few. With hundreds of years ...
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January 17, 2025
Brewer to Brewer Podcast: How Brewing Respect is Earned: Quality and Innovation
By: Ollie Team
We are thrilled to sponsor this week’s episode of Brewer to Brewer from the great team at All About Beer. What happens when you get ...
January 13, 2025
What’s Brewing for 2025: Trade Marketing Trends to Elevate Your Craft
By: Ollie Team
As 2025 approaches, the craft beer industry finds itself at a pivotal moment. Breweries aren’t just competing for shelf space and consumer eyes; they’re vying ...
January 3, 2025
A Perfectly Dosed Solution for Increasing Revenue in the Craft Beer Industry
By: Giovanni Albanese
You can point to several things within the craft beer industry that could be considered the most essential element of the business. Obviously, making a ...
December 31, 2024
The Top 5 Most-Read Ollie Articles of 2024
By: Ollie Team
We picked out the top five most-read Ollie articles of 2024, from the top craft beer trends to a new product removing diacetyl and hop ...
