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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.
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 ...
January 19, 2024
Scotch Ale Packs a Malty Punch and a Throwback Beer Experience
By: Giovanni Albanese
Craft beer consumers still go gung-ho over IPAs. According to Untappd’s 2023 Year in Beer review, .hop-forward beers had more than twenty-three million check-ins above ...
January 12, 2024
Black IPA: An Underrated Style Booming with Flavor
By: Giovanni Albanese
It goes without saying (but we’ll say it anyway) that IPAs are the top craft beer style among consumers. The proof is in the data. ...
December 12, 2023
HopKick Provides Extra Flavor, Aroma Kick You Need in All Beverages
By: Giovanni Albanese
We’ve written extensively in this space about numerous hop-based innovations, many of which go through the R&D process at John I. Haas. Whether it’s HopHaze®, ...
December 5, 2023
Oatmeal Stout: How the Experts Integrate Oats for a Silky, Velvety Brew
By: Giovanni Albanese
We’ve just covered the tip of the iceberg with stout styles, previously chatting with experts about high-octane imperial stouts, making pastry stouts taste just like ...
November 27, 2023
Citra Hops: The Hop That Invigorated the Craft Beer Revolution
By: Giovanni Albanese
We’ve written extensively about popular hops across the globe as part of this series, including Galaxy and Nectaron in the Southern Hemisphere and Mosaic and ...
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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 ...
