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There is no way that Ringwood Yeast originated in Sweden. Hull Brewery was founded in 1785, and it is a good guess that the yeast has its origins preceding that date. Hull Brewery closed in 1985 and the head brewer at the time, Peter Austin, set up Ringwood Brewery using the same yeast. As he...

It was hardly a flaming, but it was a statement of fact even if it was a bit blunt and rather matter-of-fact. Packaged Ringwood yeast does not behave anything like the real stuff from the brewery. In fact almost all packaged yeasts behave nothing like the proper stuff from the respective...

It is a confusing subject, not least because brewing literature, even commercial brewing literature, never seems to specify the temperature at which mash pH is taken, so we assume mash temperature, possibly incorrectly. One thing is certain though, is that it is incorrect to assume that a...