Beer Brewing

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.

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

I follow global beer market data the way other brewers track hop harvests — because what happens at the market level determines what styles get brewed, which ingredients get investment, and where the next generation of interesting beer will come …

Prohibition taught me more about American beer culture than any brewing textbook. When I started researching the history behind the beers I brew — why American lagers became so light, why craft brewing exploded in the 1990s rather than the …