Breaking Brews with Shan Ferments

education, science, natural · EN

Every hop has a story the datasheet leaves out. Breaking Brews is where that story gets told, one variety and one paper at a time. Each week, food and beverage scientist Shanleigh Thomson takes a single hop apart and puts it back together. Where it came from. What is actually happening inside the cone, the one decision in your process that determines whether any of that reaches the glass. Then she recaps the research that landed that week, the genome papers and storage studies and sensory trials, and translates it into something you can use before your next brew day. This is for brewers who want to know why, not only what. For anyone who has bought a variety on its reputation and wondered why the beer did not taste like the description on the bag. For people in the industry who do not have time to read the Journal of the American Society of Brewing Chemists but would like to know what is in it. Shanleigh is a UC Davis Master Brewer with more than a de