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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.
May 1, 2024
Schwarzbier: How to Perfect This German-Style Dark Lager
By: Giovanni Albanese
We’ve written about the best way to brew several traditional European beers: Märzen, Czech pilsner, Belgian tripel, helles lager, and Berliner weisse, to name a ...
April 29, 2024
SubZero Hop Kief: A New Liquid Dry Hop Extending Day One Freshness for Months
By: Giovanni Albanese
While innovations with hop products improve flavor and aroma, the name of the game is yield. Flowable hop innovations—we’ve covered a lot of them, including ...
April 24, 2024
Brewing with Coconut: A Guide to Using This Tropical Fruit in Beer
By: Giovanni Albanese
We’ve provided several top guides featuring brewers’ insights on crafting beers with adjuncts, including honey, fruit purees, and chocolate. Another popular ingredient, coconut, whether used ...
April 22, 2024
Saison: Experts Explain the Best Ways to Brew One
By: Giovanni Albanese
From the French word for “season,” saison is a refreshing, crisp, and dry beer generally lower in ABV. Much like farmhouse ales, saisons have morphed ...
April 11, 2024
RipeLocker: Innovative Technology Extends Wet Hop Season
By: Giovanni Albanese
There’s something about enjoying a wet hop beer like no other. The hop harvest in the U.S. is treated like the holiday season for the ...
April 4, 2024
YCH DynaBoost™: Everything You Need to Know About the New Flowable Hop Product
By: Giovanni Albanese
There is no shortage of innovations available to craft brewers. When running a successful brewery, making beer often boils down to maximizing yield and putting ...
March 28, 2024
How Can ALDC Prevent Diacetyl and Hop Creep?
By: Giovanni Albanese
Tight brewing processes are always crucial for creating great beer. However, adding ways to shore up any would-be issues before they arise is also helpful. ...
March 26, 2024
Berliner Weisse: Experts Share Multiple Ways to Make a Great One
By: Giovanni Albanese
We’re officially into spring now, and the change in the seasons requires more refreshing beer. We’ve written much about sour beers, including the smoothie and ...
March 25, 2024
How to Make Your Best Beer Schedule and Calendar
By: Giovanni Albanese
We’ve written a plethora of articles explaining the best ways to brew different beer styles. Most recently, we covered dry Irish stout, cream ale, barleywine, ...
March 13, 2024
Is Nitro Beer Growing in Popularity?
By: Giovanni Albanese
We’ve highlighted many ways to take a stout, such as an imperial stout, pastry stout, or tried-and-true dry Irish stout, and elevate it, whether using ...
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December 13, 2024
The Top 5 Hop Guides of 2024
By: Ollie Team
Here are the top five hop guides we’ve created in 2024, showing everything you need to know about some of the hottest and most iconic ...
December 11, 2024
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 11, 2024
Hopzoil: Fresh-Hops Oil Extract Extends Beer Freshness by Leaps and Bounds
By: Giovanni Albanese
Not all liquid hop products are created equally. That’s why companies continue to pump out options for brewers to play around with. We’ve covered a ...
December 6, 2024
The Top 5 Hop Products of 2024
By: Ollie Team
We picked out the top five hop products that we’ve seen brewers successfully use to save time, money, and yield in 2024. See all of ...
