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Featured series
Inside the brewhouse: six decisions that define a beer
Foundations
Why lager is the hardest beer to brew
Cold fermentation, long conditioning and nowhere for a mistake to hide.
11 min·HOPPD Studio
The alcohol-free revolution
Three production routes to sub-0.5% beer and how to taste the difference.
9 min·HOPPD Studio
Sensory
Training your palate: the six core beer faults
Diacetyl, DMS, acetaldehyde, oxidation, light-strike and phenolics — how to name them.
18 min·HOPPD Studio
Brewing
Water chemistry, decoded without the spreadsheet
Sulphate-to-chloride ratio and why the same recipe tastes different in two cities.
14 min·HOPPD Studio
Decoction mashing, step by step
What boiling part of your mash actually changes, and when it is worth the hours.
16 min·HOPPD Studio
World
Beer before hops: Africa's grain brewing traditions
Sorghum, teff and gesho — a brewing lineage older than the Reinheitsgebot.
22 min·HOPPD Studio