SRM stands for Standard Reference Method. It's a numeric scale for measuring and describing beer colour, from very pale to nearly black. At one end...

Somewhere in your fridge might be a beer with a hand-drawn label, a quirky name and a story about two mates who started brewing in...

ABV stands for alcohol by volume - the percentage of a beer's total volume that's pure alcohol. A beer with 5% ABV is 5% alcohol,...

IBU (International Bitterness Units) is a lab measurement of the concentration of bittering compounds that hops contribute to a beer. It's a straightforward chemistry number,...

Beer doesn't "expire" in the way milk or meat does; it won't make you sick after its best-by date. What changes is flavour. Hop aroma...

The beer inside a keg, bottle or can starts out identical. What changes is how it's stored and served before it reaches your glass. Draft...

Dry January is a voluntary, month-long break from alcohol that many people take at the start of the calendar year. It is usually framed as...

No, "craft" isn't a health rating. It's a legal and business definition about a brewery's size and independence, not what's in the glass. Calories and...