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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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CBC Preview: How to Win a Hop Harvest Getaway
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April 14, 2025
Crafted For Action: Elevating Voices and Building Community in Craft Beer
By: Ollie Team
Craft beer is more than what’s in the glass—it’s about the people behind the pints and the stories that shape the culture. Crafted For Action ...
March 27, 2025
The 3 Reasons Why Your Brewery Should Have an Employee Handbook
By: Giovanni Albanese
The craft beer industry has so many individuals who leapt from passionate home brewer to brewery owner. Many people get into the craft beer industry ...
March 10, 2025
Abstrax BrewGas Series: The Gateway to the Dankest of Beers
By: Giovanni Albanese
Cannabis, terpene, hemp-based, and THC-infused products have become a blossoming segment of the beverage industry. Craft beer is jumping onto that bandwagon, too. Thought leaders ...
