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

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,

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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Hops aren’t just used to provide bitterness to the beer but they have a certain characteristics which when used in the right way help in...