Modelo’s alcohol content varies between its two main variants in a way that surprises some drinkers — the darker Negra Modelo is actually lower in ABV than the pale Especial, which inverts the assumption that darker beer means stronger beer.
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.
Stella Artois has an interesting ABV history that not many drinkers know — it used to be significantly stronger than it is now, and the current version is meaningfully different from what was sold in Belgium and the UK in …
Guinness alcohol content is genuinely surprising to most people when they learn the actual number — and the direction of the surprise is almost always the same: they expected it to be higher.
Budweiser’s alcohol content is something I’ve been asked about surprisingly often, usually in the context of comparisons — is Bud stronger than Bud Light, how does regular Budweiser compare to Coors or Miller, and where do the various Budweiser varia
Heineken’s alcohol content is a question I encounter regularly, and it’s worth answering with the precision the subject deserves — because the answer changes depending on which Heineken product you’re asking about and which market you’re in.
AI-designed flavor wheels for beer education are a concept that makes immediate sense to anyone who has used the existing BJCP or Siebel Institute flavor wheels and noticed their limitations.
Corona is one of the beers I get asked about most when friends who don’t follow beer closely want to know what they’re actually drinking.
Self-sterilizing fermentation tank technology is an area I’ve tracked from the perspective of someone who takes cleaning and sanitation seriously in homebrewing and knows how much time and chemical use goes into maintaining a contamination-free brewi
Beer and quantum computing is a crossover topic that initially seems more like speculative futurism than practical brewing science — and it largely is, for now.
Blockchain for beer authenticity is a concept I’ve evaluated critically — the technology has genuine potential for specific supply chain transparency problems, but much of what’s been marketed as “blockchain beer authentication” conflates the technol