Cross Bay Sunset

Brewing water affects the beer in three ways: It affects the pH of the beer, which affects how the beer flavours are expressed to your palate; it provides “seasoning” from the sulfate-to-chloride ratio, and it can cause off-flavours from chlorine or contaminants.

Malt is a substance made from grain that has been soaked in water and then dried in a hot oven.

Hops are the flowers of the hop plant Humulus lupulus, a member of the Cannabaceae family of flowering plants.

Yeasts are eukaryotic, single-celled microorganisms classified as members of the fungus kingdom.

The ABV will tell you how many ounces of actual alcohol are in the beverage. For example, if a 12-ounce bottle of beer is 5.0 percent alcohol, that means that the bottle has 0.6 ounces of pure alcohol.