If you’ve ever looked at a beer menu and seen “hoppy” and thought, Okay, but… what exactly is hopping? - you’re not alone. “Hoppy” is one of those beer words that brewers use casually, while everyone else is left wondering whether the beer contains an unusually enthusiastic rabbit. Hoppy simply means the beer has a noticeable character from hops. Hops are the small green flowers added during brewing. They help balance the sweetness of malt, add bitterness, and most importantl

You sit down at a brewery. The menu arrives. Suddenly, you’re looking at words like ABV, IBU, dry-hopped, unfiltered, sour, sessionable and wondering if you accidentally opened a chemistry textbook. Don’t worry. You’re not expected to know all of it. A craft beer menu is basically telling you what the beer is going to taste and feel like before you order it. Once you understand a few terms, choosing a beer becomes much easier. ABV: How Strong Is It? ABV means Alcohol By Volum

Have you ever taken a sip of a wheat beer and thought, why does this taste like banana? There’s a good chance there isn't a banana anywhere in the brewery. This is particularly common with German style wheat beers such as Hefeweizen. You can get aromas of ripe banana, banana bread, bubblegum and even a little clove. And all of this can come from the yeast. When we brew a wheat beer, the ingredients themselves are fairly simple: malted wheat, barley, hops, water and yeast. The

As I'm writing this, I've got a pint of our Mexican Lager sitting next to me. Mexican Lager One of my favourite parts of brewing a new beer is finally getting to sit down with a pint and think back through all the little decisions that got it into the glass. Every beer has a story, and this one started long before we milled the first bag of malt . It started with a simple idea. Not another beer launch. Not another themed menu. A proper Mexican festival. For almost two weeks,

Some collaborations start with a detailed plan. Others start with a conversation that gets repeated over the years. "We should brew something together sometime." That was pretty much the story of Pulped Fiction. I've known Lynette(Brewmaster) from Flying Fox for quite a while now. Like most brewers in India's craft beer industry, our paths have crossed regularly over the years at festivals, brewery visits, industry events, and over countless beers shared between shifts. Every

Teaching the First Steps: The Basic Brewing Program at Bangalore Culinary Academy There’s something deeply satisfying about watching someone taste their first well-made beer and suddenly realize that beer is not just “beer.” It’s grain, chemistry, microbiology, process, patience and a little bit of brewing magic. That moment of realization is exactly why I enjoy teaching brewing. Over the past few weeks, I had the pleasure of conducting the Basic Brewing Program at Bangalore

The Myth of the Liquid Loaf If I had a rupee for every time someone told me, “I love craft beer, but I am watching my waistline,” I would probably have enough to brew another experimental batch by now. The beer belly is one of the oldest and most stubborn ideas in drinking culture. It makes beer sound like some kind of magnet that ignores basic human biology and heads straight for your stomach. As a brewer, that explanation never made sense to me. Brewing is chemistry, not ma

During fermentation, yeast does far more than make alcohol. This is the stage where beer truly takes shape, where it moves from sweet wort to something expressive, layered, and alive. If the brewhouse is about preparation and control, fermentation is where biology takes over and begins to interpret those decisions. As yeast consumes sugars, it produces alcohol and carbon dioxide, but those are only part of the story. Along the way, yeast also creates a wide range of flavour-a

Every now and then, a collaboration comes along that just clicks. It feels less like a partnership and more like two crafts connecting at the right moment. That's exactly what happened with Oktoberfestbier, our special brew made with Lavonne Cafe , one of Bangalore's most loved patisseries led by Chef Avin Thaliath . If you've ever stepped into Lavonne, you know what I mean. That first inhale - butter, caramel, freshly baked croissants, and maybe a hint of rye from the bread

Every city has its rituals. In Bangalore, one of them is gathering around a pint of fresh, carefully brewed beer. Over the years, this city has grown into India's craft beer capital - not just because of the number of breweries, but because of the stories each glass tells. And this September, those stories converged into one big adventure: The Bangalore Craft Crawl 2025. Now that the crawl's over, the city feels a little different. Maybe it's just the hangover of good memorie

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