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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41059-2 Here, we studied the roles of microbial interactions in flavour formation in a year-long Cheddar cheese making process, using a commercial starter culture containing Streptococcus thermophilus and Lactococcus strains. By using an experimental...

I see the auction of random crap from the Twitter offices includes a "Beverage-Air BM23-B Kegerator Beer Dispenser" - yours for just $1200 (compared with $1350 new from kegerators.com) https://bid.hgpauction.com/auctions/8421/herita10194/lot-details/b561f776-25ea-43a5-a536-af6600531ecc

Fermentis are very proud of their new baby, BR-8, so much so they even did a fancy Guinness-style video which tells you absolutely nothing about the product but tells you how to feel about the "brewer’s journey, through his thoughts and doubts. It’s about his path towards his most creative self...

It seems to be a regular question, how long before liquid yeast is dead or unusable. Well here's proof that you can revive liquid yeast that's nearly 5 years old, this was an out-of-date pack of WLP540 that I got from the old Hop & Grape ages ago, then with one thing and another I didn't get...

There was a thread on another forum asking for a recipe for a SMASH (single-malt-and-single-hop) beer, and my reply turned into a more general introduction to how to construct a recipe, thinking about how much grain you need for a certain alcohol content and that kind of thing. It assumes you...

The Toer de Geuze (Geuze Tour) is a biennial event to promote the breweries of the Senne valley : EN – Toer De Geuze – at home Which for obvious reasons isn't happening this year, so instead Breandán Kearney of Belgian Smaak, and Liselot Caura of BeerSecret are hosting virtual MTBs next weekend...

The European Beer Consumers Union (EBCU) has published a style guide, led by Tim Webb, whose career has included organising CAMRA's Great British Beer Festival in the early days and writing books such as CAMRA's Good Beer Guide Belgium. It's more descriptive and less prescriptive than the BJCP...

Disentangling photoperiod from hop vernalization and dormancy for global production and speed breeding Bauerle, W.L. Sci Rep 9, 16003 (2019) doi:10.1038/s41598-019-52548-0 "Photoperiod is known to interact with temperature to control flowering in hops. Studies have stipulated that resting...

Since we're coming (in the Northern hemisphere at least) to the culmination of the hop-growing year, I was thinking it was time to get our cameras out to help those HBTers who have hops they can't identify. Particularly if you have access to traditional landraces which are the ones that people...

I happened to come across humle.se recently and was surprised to see them selling the very latest Farams hops, including Mystic which is the first time I've seen them in the homebrew world, not even in the UK. Also Godiva (which Malt Miller have had since last year, and which seems quite...

Last time I saw the Brewlab mob they were talking about outsourcing their homebrew activities, and it looks like they've chosen Hop & Grape to carry a handful of their slopes. All going for £7.99/vial (currently ~€9.10/US$10.30), at the moment they only seem to offer shipping by courier but...

Roger Ryman has dug up the recipe for Daylight Robbery, the beer that he brewed on the 2.5brl kit at St Austell for the 1999 solar eclipse, that evolved into Tribute with the addition of some Styrians. 2.5brl is 108 US gallons or 409 litres, so multiply by 0.046 to get to 5 US gallons. Hmm -...

WLP073 is a current seasonal release from White Labs having been put in the Vault in 2017. I thought I'd start a thread to encourage a centralised discussion as there seems to be nothing about it on the web. Sounds nice : "It produces slight esters and mild phenols, while preserving the sweet...

Hey folks I came across a bottle of Redhook Longhammer recently, a rare sight on this side of the pond and bought it on a whim. I assume it’s not bottle conditioned, but I did come across a thread from 2010 where someone had recovered yeast from an unknown Redhook bottle. Has anyone got more...

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Golden syrup is a commonly used hack by British brewers as a substitute for invert sugar - it's found in any supermarket here - but seems to be not well known among brewers outside the UK. Here's a nice video from Ragus about how it's made commercially (the first minute is just a puff piece...

Nice article on Andreas Krennmair's Historic German and Austrian Beers for the Home Brewer, which includes recipes for 22 obscure styles such as Merseburger and who could resist "Augsburger Lager has a really weird way of mashing"? https://vinepair.com/articles/rare-german-beer-styles/

The results of the 1002 Genomes Project (actually the genomes of 1011 yeasts) have finally been published in Nature. It wasn't particularly interested in wine and beer yeast as such, it intended to have a broad survey of S. cerevisiae from lots of different niches all over the world, from bats...

I knocked up the following for my own use and figured others might be interested, it's based on Hisamoto et al (2010) who were looking for POF- wine yeasts to ferment the Japanese Koshu grape which is apparently notorious for its phenolics. So they measured 4-vinylphenol and 4-vinylguaiacol (in...

One of the most interesting things to come out of the Gallone et al yeast family tree paper from 2016 is the presence of two strains, of Belgian and British origin respectively, at the heart of the US group of yeast typified by Chico and BRY-97. Presumably they represent a connection with the...