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PopHop: beer with its own playlist
PopHop from Rotterdam brews beer with a clear common thread: music. We take you through their beers, from the light White…
The many faces of stout: from Irish classic to beer for an empress
Stout is much more than one heavy, dark beer: the style ranges from the dry Irish classic to a leaden Imperial Stout…
Malt: the unsung flavor enhancer of your beer
Everyone talks about hops, but the malt determines at least as much of the color and taste of your beer. We explain…
Four beer myths that simply aren't true
Dark is stronger, cloudy is contaminated, the colder the better, and cans are inferior to glass: four persistent assumptions about beer that…
Beer through the ages: from clay tablet to craft beer can
Beer is thousands of years older than the wheel and the written word. We trace it from clay tablets in Mesopotamia through monasteries and…
The brewing process: four steps from malt to beer in your glass
From crushed malt to a full glass: beer goes through four fixed steps before it ends up on your table. We take you…
Yeast: the tiny little creature that does all the real work
Hops and malt get all the attention, but the little creature that does the real work often remains overlooked: yeast. We explain how…
Why one IPA smells like mango and the other like pine
Two IPAs of the same strength can smell completely different. That is almost never due to the malt and almost always to the hops:…
Beer with food: three pairings that always work
Wine with food is a habit, beer with food is a discovery. With three simple principles and a few concrete…
This is how you store craft beer without it losing its flavor.
Light, heat, and time all do something to your beer, and not always for the better. Why brown glass exists, which beers…
Struuk Bier from Ewijk: beers that all start with Ons
Ons Japie, Ons Gabbertje, Ons Coolio. The beers from Struuk Bier in Ewijk, Gelderland, bear names as if they were family members. Behind…
The Hague wants to abolish the small brewer tariff: what that means for small brewers
The cabinet plans to abolish the reduced excise duty rate for small breweries as of 2028. It yields little for the treasury, but…