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Pastry Stout: How to Make a Beer That Tastes Like Dessert

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By: Giovanni Albanese
Published: November 8, 2023
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 styles, ranking in the top ten most-checked-in beers on Untappd with 863k check-ins this year, another subset of this category has steadily grown. Today, pastry
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Imperial Stout: Experts Explain Wide Ranges to Create a Great One

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By: Giovanni Albanese
Published: November 3, 2023
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, ...
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What Is HopHaze? Real Hops Creating Stable Haze

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By: Giovanni Albanese
Published: November 1, 2023
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 ...
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Understanding the Hazy Beer Gene: How Certain Yeasts Promote More Haze in Your Beer

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By: Giovanni Albanese
Published: October 24, 2023
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 ...
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How Fresh Hops Can Invigorate the Brewing Process

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By: Giovanni Albanese
Published: October 16, 2023
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 ...
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Centennial Hops: A Throwback Hop That Still Shines Bright

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By: Giovanni Albanese
Published: October 11, 2023
Hop breeding has led to the creation of some amazing varietals over the years. We’ve covered a couple of those hops in this space, including ...
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Everything You Need to Know When Buying a Brew Kettle

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By: Giovanni Albanese
Published: September 28, 2023
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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Great American Beer Festival Names Five Ollie Partners As Medal Winners in 2023

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By: Giovanni Albanese
Published: September 26, 2023
Ollie congratulates five of its craft brewery partners who picked up medals at the Great American Beer Festival award ceremony this past Saturday, September 23, ...
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The Essential Guide to Mosaic Hops

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By: Giovanni Albanese
Published: September 21, 2023
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 ...
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Three Major Keys to Bringing Old-World Classic Märzen to U.S. Craft Audiences

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By: Giovanni Albanese
Published: September 20, 2023
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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