Beer spans an endless array of colours from pale lagers to the blackness of stouts. For the big breweries, beer colour is a quality measurement as they make the same beer recipe week in week out and so colour variation is expected to be minuscule. But for the small craft brewer, reproducibility is not such…
Hoppiness is often used as a synonym for the word bitter and many brewers market their craft beers promoting the ‘hoppy’ elements. But this is where it gets confusing as there are plenty of beers that use loads of hops and don’t taste the least bit bitter. Beer is made from just four ingredients; grain,…
Beer style is a term used to differentiate beers by factors such as colour, flavour, strength, ingredients, production method, recipe, or even origin. Today, there are hundreds of documented beer styles and a handful of organisations publish their own official and unique classifications. It is up to each individual brewer to decide whether they want to create…