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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.
November 22, 2023
Milk Stout: How Lactose Lends a Silky-Smooth Mouthfeel
By: Giovanni Albanese
Undoubtedly, stouts pick up traction from consumers during the colder months. But that doesn’t make life for brewers boring, with so many subsets of the ...
November 13, 2023
Nectaron: Providing ‘Overwhelming’ Flavors for Great Hop-Centric Beers
By: Giovanni Albanese
We’ve (virtually) traveled the globe as part of our hop series, highlighting popular hops used in the craft beer industry, checking in with Australia’s Galaxy ...
November 8, 2023
Pastry Stout: How to Make a Beer That Tastes Like Dessert
By: Giovanni Albanese
We’ve written extensively about how to make darker styles like porters, Märzens, and high-octane imperial stouts. While imperial stouts are one of the most popular ...
November 3, 2023
Imperial Stout: Experts Explain Wide Ranges to Create a Great One
By: Giovanni Albanese
When it comes to imperial stouts in craft beer, it’s go big or go home. According to the previous two years of Untappd check-in data, ...
November 1, 2023
What Is HopHaze? Real Hops Creating Stable Haze
By: Giovanni Albanese
Science never stops trying to improve products across all industries and trades. That’s no different within craft beer circles. Whether it’s microorganisms, including thiolized yeasts ...
October 24, 2023
Understanding the Hazy Beer Gene: How Certain Yeasts Promote More Haze in Your Beer
By: Giovanni Albanese
Over the summer, Omega Yeast released groundbreaking research linking hazy beer to a specific hazy beer gene called HZY1. Their findings can help brewers peel ...
October 16, 2023
How Fresh Hops Can Invigorate the Brewing Process
By: Giovanni Albanese
Brewing beer is essentially a controlled science experiment. We know all the variables that will help guide us from raw ingredients to a desired finished ...
September 28, 2023
Everything You Need to Know When Buying a Brew Kettle
By: Giovanni Albanese
Whether you want to start a new brewery, a new location with a small pilot brewing system, or upgrade your older system for something newer ...
September 21, 2023
The Essential Guide to Mosaic Hops
By: Giovanni Albanese
We recently highlighted how Galaxy hops out of Australia—one of the most popular varieties in the country, according to the latest hop report—can contribute immense ...
September 20, 2023
Three Major Keys to Bringing Old-World Classic Märzen to U.S. Craft Audiences
By: Giovanni Albanese
We’ve covered some classic European styles of beer in this space. Whether it’s Czech pilsner, Belgian tripel, helles lager, or farmhouse ales, craft brewers across ...
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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 ...
