Thiolized yeast changed how I think about hop aroma fundamentally. Before I started using strains engineered or selected to overexpress the IRC7 beta-lyase gene, I understood dry hopping as adding aromatic compounds from hops to beer.
Yeast banking is one of the most useful skills I’ve developed as a homebrewer, and it took me embarrassingly long to start doing it seriously.
Brewing with recycled bread yeast is one of those techniques that sits at the intersection of resourcefulness and genuine brewing curiosity.
DNA sequencing of brewing strains is something I got into practically when I started building a yeast bank.
3D printing entered my brewing setup gradually — first as a source of replacement parts for discontinued equipment, then for custom fittings that didn’t exist commercially, and eventually for brewing-specific tools I designed myself.
I’ve used AI recipe generation tools for brewing, and my assessment after several years of experimentation is that they’re genuinely useful for one purpose and significantly overhyped for another.
Lab-grown hops are one of those developments I track with genuine excitement and appropriate skepticism in equal measure.
Genetic engineering of brewing yeast is the area of brewing science I’ve followed most closely over the past five years, because it’s where the gap between what’s scientifically possible and what’s commercially available is closing fastest.
Beer and sport have been intertwined for so long that it’s easy to take the relationship for granted. I notice it every time I brew for a Super Bowl party or watch a rugby match at a pub — the …
India’s beer festival scene has developed faster than most international observers expected. When I started tracking craft brewing in South Asia around 2018, beer festivals in India meant a handful of events in Bengaluru attended mostly by expats and