I was recently sitting in my favourite beer bar and noticed a style on the tap menu that I’ve never seen before: grisette. While sipping on my pint, a quick Google search revealed it to be a type of beer that falls under the Farmhouse Ale style and a close cousin of Saison. It got […]
In today’s “Ingredient Spotlight” we’re looking at the slightly mysterious world of yeast. Yeast has been used to ferment things for many centuries but it’s only relatively recently that we’ve actually started to understand how it works. For thousands of years, humans have used yeast in food and beverage preparation. Our ancestors understood that something […]
Ale and lager are the two most popular styles of beer available today. Most of the commercially available brews that we enjoy as beer lovers will probably fall into one of these two categories. Can you tell a lager from an ale? In this article we’ll discover the differences between these two famous styles. We’ll […]