Author: Team Craft Sense
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What Are Barrel-Aged Beers All About?
Barrel-aging is a technique brewers use to place the beer into a wooden barrel for a certain period of time. It’s a relatively cheap, eco-friendly method that uses discarded liquor barrels to make delicious beer. Many craft breweries have begun producing all sorts of barrel-aged beers and they’re proving quite popular. Why Barrel Aging? Barrel-aging…
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What Are the Ingredients in Craft Beer?
It may be surprising to some, but most craft beers only have four main ingredients. The tiniest of tweaks in these core ingredients have a huge impact in the resulting beer. Now we all know that craft breweries add additional ingredients like fruits and spices, we’ll be focusing on the main four here. There’s also…
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Style Profile: Berliner Weisse
Berliner Weisse is a sour wheat beer that’s technically only produced in Berlin. Napoleon once called it “the Champagne of the North”. While there are plenty of breweries throughout the world that make this style, true Berliner Weisse beer is brewed solely by two small Berlin breweries, Berliner Kindl and Schultheiss. Berliner Weisse History Though…
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Beer Style Profile: Gose
Sour beers have recently become popular and breweries are coming out with more sour beer options to keep up with demand. As brewers explore new styles, they have begun to revisit older, traditional styles. Gose (not to be confused with the Belgian lambic style “gueze”), is one kind of traditional sour beer that has recently…
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A Quick History of Craft Beer in the US
American craft beer is relatively new when considering beer’s millenniums-old history, but where did “craft beer” get its start? It’s an industry that’s had its shares of ups and downs, but is currently an industry that rakes in $23.5 billion annually from over 5,000 breweries. So how did craft brewing get so successful so fast? Well,…