The keg leasing vs. buying decision is one that brewery and taproom operators face early and get wrong often — the financial logic of the two models is straightforward when you work through it clearly, but the cash flow timing …
John Brewster
John Brewster
John Brewster is the homebrewer and writer behind BrewMyBeer — over a decade of all-grain brewing, 80+ BIAB batches, and 1,000+ guides on fermentation science, water chemistry, hops, yeast, and homebrewing equipment. Every guide is written from genuine hands-on experience.
Taproom design is one of the most consequential decisions a brewery makes — the space directly determines dwell time, per-visit spend, social media shareability, and whether first-time visitors become regulars.
Craft beer marketing in India is in a genuinely interesting transitional moment in 2026 — the strategies that built the first wave of Indian craft brands are losing effectiveness as the market matures and consumer sophistication increases.
Obtaining a brewery license in Bangalore is one of the more achievable microbrewery licensing processes in India, but the process is substantially more complex and time-consuming than most prospective brewery founders realize.
Contract brewing is one of the most misunderstood models in the craft beer industry, and in India it’s become an increasingly important pathway for brand founders who want to launch a beer brand without the massive capital outlay of building …
The profit margin difference between draft beer and packaged beer is one of the most important economic decisions a craft brewery or brewpub faces, and the numbers are more nuanced than the commonly repeated claim that draft is always more …
Starting a microbrewery in India is one of the most capital-intensive business decisions in the food and beverage sector, and the cost estimates circulating online are usually either wildly optimistic or based on outdated figures.
Calcium is the most important mineral in brewing water, and it functions through multiple distinct mechanisms that most water chemistry guides either oversimplify or conflate.
Foam stability is one of those beer quality attributes that separates well-made beer from mediocre beer at the point of service, and the biochemistry behind it is more interesting and practical than most homebrewing discussions suggest.
Henry’s Law governs carbonation in beer — it’s the physical law that determines how much CO₂ dissolves in beer at a given pressure and temperature, and understanding it precisely is what separates reliable, repeatable carbonation from guesswork.