The home brewing industry is booming. With brick-and-mortar breweries popping up across the country and starter kits becoming increasingly available, getting started has never been easier. Everyone makes mistakes when learning to brew. It's inevitable; it happens to everyone. But knowing how to avoi

People in the beer industry often say that breweries don't brew beer. Breweries produce wort, the substance that yeast ferments into beer. While ingredients like hops and malt often garner attention, yeast plays a crucial role in determining the final flavor of craft beer. The choice of yeast influe

What is hop creep?Hop creep refers to the increased fermentation in dry-hopped hops, triggered by the amylolytic enzymes in the hops. These enzymes break down unfermentable dextrins into short-chain oligosaccharides such as maltotriose, maltose, and glucose. While yeast cannot process the long-chain