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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.
March 11, 2024
New York-Based HOPGUILD Striving to be East Coast Hub for Hop Production
By: Giovanni Albanese
When brewers across the U.S. think of hop production in North America, they immediately think of the Pacific Northwest in states like Washington, Oregon, and ...
March 6, 2024
Honey: How to Capture Flavor and Aroma in the Finished Beer
By: Giovanni Albanese
We’ve created some top guides on how brewers can brew with adjuncts, such as chocolate and fruit puree. When used appropriately, adding honey to beer ...
March 4, 2024
Everything to Know About Brewing a Great Dry Irish Stout
By: Giovanni Albanese
Not all stouts are created equal. In just the last year, we’ve written about how to brew the best milk stouts, oatmeal stouts, pastry stouts, ...
February 29, 2024
Spontaneous Fermentation: Answering Some of the Tough Questions About This Complex Process
By: Giovanni Albanese
The evolution of the craft beer industry has been driven by fine-tuning processes according to a set of regulations and using better ingredients so that ...
February 28, 2024
Fining Agents: Cost-Effective Ways to Create Crystal Clear Beer
By: Giovanni Albanese
We’ve covered the benefits of using a centrifuge. And while all breweries would love the ability to use this piece of equipment, even the smallest ...
February 26, 2024
The Secrets to Creating a Quintessential Cream Ale
By: Giovanni Albanese
Over the past year, we dove deep into several different old-world beer styles—Scotch ale, Märzen, Belgian tripels, and Czech pilsners, among others. But beers that ...
February 19, 2024
Experts Explain the Nuance of Creating a Great Barleywine
By: Giovanni Albanese
We’ve covered a lot of big beers in this space, including dessert-flavor-packed pastry stouts, imperial stouts, and even Belgian tripels. Along the lines of the ...
February 14, 2024
Everything You Need to Know About Alora™ Hops
By: Giovanni Albanese
Brewers in the craft beer community continually search for the latest and greatest hops to elevate their beers. Previously, in this space, we’ve written about ...
February 7, 2024
Krush (formerly HBC 586): A New Experimental Hop Creating One-of-a-Kind Drinkability
By: Giovanni Albanese
Every hop goes through a rigorous yearslong process to determine whether it’s viable to commercialize. We’ve covered many of the hops that broke through due ...
January 22, 2024
Brewing With Chocolate: Elevating Beers Through a Delicate Process
By: Giovanni Albanese
We’ve written about using bold flavors to make great beer, like with kettle or smoothie sours or pastry stouts. While those flavors in beers are ...
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July 10, 2025
Dekkers: Lighting Up the World’s Top Beverage Brands for 30+ Years
By: Giovanni Albanese
Every brewery is fighting for tap space, fridge space, and most critically: consumer headspace. And in today’s overcrowded craft beer landscape, great beer alone isn’t ...
June 19, 2025
Vendor Management Tips for Breweries
By: Adam Feingold
Taking the time to review and manage your vendors could be a little time consuming at first, but if you get into a regular cycle ...
June 11, 2025
Top 3 Brewery Software Reports You Should Be Using
By: Adam Feingold
Whether you’ve just started using Ollie or you’ve been running your brewery on it for years, one thing’s clear: your data is your secret weapon. ...
May 20, 2025
Raising Capital for Your Brewery: Do You Want It or Need It?
By: Giovanni Albanese
From the eyes of outsiders, there’s a lot of glamor on the surface of a brewery. Consumers see the slow-motion video of a crystal-clear beer ...
