If you’re a fan of craft beers, especially IPAs and wheat beers, you’re probably already used to drinking hazy or cloudy beer. Indeed with the increasing popularity of fresh, unfiltered and unpasteurized beers, more and more consumers have come to accept and even enjoy a bit of haze. Having said that, the vast majority of…
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Do Beer Finings Kill Yeast?
Finings are added to beer during the brewing process to help prevent it from being cloudy. They work by attaching themselves to protein molecules and yeast cells, causing them to sink to the bottom of the brew kettle or fermenter. Depending on the fining agents used, they are added either during the boil or in…
What Is A Trappist Beer? What Does Trappist Beer Taste Like?
Beer has been brewed in monasteries since the middle ages and, although they didn’t actually invent beer, it’s fair to say that monks played an important part in the development of beer as we know it. Medieval abbeys were basically self-sufficient and, in addition to praying, the monks used to work long hours in the…
How Long Does It Take To Make A Craft Beer? (Steps & time scales)
One of the first things that my friends ask me when they try my homebrew, after the inevitable question of ABV, is how long it takes to make craft beer. I tell them that it usually takes around four weeks from start to finish. I then point out that most of the activity occurs on…
