
Brewing with Hemp
The five primary aroma buckets that best describe “dank” include woody, herbal, floral, stinky, and fruity. Every strain of cannabis has these aromas in varying amounts.
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Breweries should strive to improve their processes and expand the scope of their quality program as production increases. The best quality programs have robust preventive maintenance plans. Scheduled maintenance will result in higher quality processes and reduced down-time. Maintenance will also help prevent some potential food safety hazards.
The five primary aroma buckets that best describe “dank” include woody, herbal, floral, stinky, and fruity. Every strain of cannabis has these aromas in varying amounts.
Too often, brewers talk about stability issues as something to react to rather than prevent. Careful consideration in all facets of the brewing process provides a better road map.
Monitoring and controlling packaging operations is one of the biggest challenges to beer quality, and it often distinguishes good brewers from great brewers.
Since packaging operations are the last set of a brewery’s process steps to touch beer before it’s consumed, it’s essential that breweries pay strict attention to food safety.
The Hot Steep method, a rapid wort preparation method approved by the ASBC, will allow breweries of all sizes and budgets to easily evaluate extractable malt flavor.
Objectively measuring quality is a three-legged stool with microbiology, chemistry, and sensory forming the platform. Of the three, sensory can be the most approachable.
Brewpubs must have a diverse list of high quality beers on tap to satisfy fans, but those same fans are less tolerant than ever of beer that isn’t at its peak freshness or has flaws.
Not all brewers are conscientious and competent stewards of our collective brand of craft beer, but brewpubs can be incubators for the quality-conscious phenomenon.