Breaking Brews with Shan Ferments
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Variety Vitals 3: Luminosa®
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Introduction
Luminosa has one known parent. The other half of its genetics is whatever pollen happened to be moving across a research yard in Corvallis in 2013.
Most commercial varieties come out of a control...
Fresh Hop Fever
An English experiment, a Yakima category
Trevor Holmes was walking the harvest at Wadworth in Devizes, Wiltshire, when he started wondering what a beer would taste like aromatised with hops straight off the bine. He was head brewer the...
Terroir Tuesday Week 24: Azacca
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Introduction
There is a published study in which Azacca and Idaho 7 were brewed side by side, from the same batch of wort, in the same brewery, with the same yeast, on the same day. That almost never happens. M...
Summer Research Recap & El Dorado
El Dorado went into the ground as a bittering hop. The pear and watermelon it is known for now sat outside the original target completely, and CLS Farms went from one experimental acre to twenty seven the following year once they saw what w...
Research Recap: June & July 2026
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Seven papers published or indexed across June and July cover hop aroma over shelf life, thiol release timing, hop oil chemistry, carbonation engineering, and two studies sitting squarely in the non a...
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Shanleigh Thomson, founder of Shan.Ferments, blends her passion for craft beer & education to create an inclusive brewing science platform.
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