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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.
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 ...
September 11, 2023
Why Porters Should be on Everyone’s Tap List Right Now
By: Giovanni Albanese
Not all dark beers are sweet, barrel-aged, big-bodied stouts. For instance, the porter—a garnet- to rust-colored beer that’s light, delicious, and worth considering adding to ...
September 6, 2023
Best Ingredients to Make Mexican-Style Lagers. Hint: It’s Not Lime
By: Giovanni Albanese
For a long time, brewers have been saying that this is the “Year of the Lager.” Finally, it seems that consumers are catching up. Untappd ...
September 1, 2023
Three Ways Mash Hopping Can Improve Your Beer
By: Giovanni Albanese
Determining where you put your hops can play a huge factor in the personality of your beer. Here’s how front loading your mash with hops—mash ...
August 31, 2023
Farmhouse Ales Have Multiple Paths to Success
By: Giovanni Albanese
Sweet. Tart. Funky. Earthy. The list of ways you can describe what a farmhouse ale can be is seemingly endless. A category of its own, ...
August 21, 2023
The Key to Making the Best Pumpkin Beer Is All About Balance
By: Giovanni Albanese
We’re already well past the halfway point of the year. With fall fast approaching, many breweries turn to darker, maltier styles. But as summer transitions ...
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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 ...
