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Re: Ask HN: What are the hottest startups related to beer / brewing?

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Post by david-given »

dagw wrote: post #7

Mikkeller, who know a thing or two about brewing, seem to be making a big push into non-or-low alcoholic beers that actually taste interesting. And speaking personally I'd love to see more things happening in this front. As an old old man (ie past 35) who cannot drink like he did in his youth I'd love to go to the pub on a Wednesday, have 6 pints of varied and interesting beers and still be at work and ready to go th…

Someone downthread mentioned Brewdog --- apparently they make a low-alcohol beer worth drinking:

https://www.brewdog.com/item/61/BrewDog/Nanny-State.html

Reviews:

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/16315/53885/

Never tried it myself, so I'd be interested to hear about it.

Re: Ask HN: What are the hottest startups related to beer / brewing?

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Post by 127001brewer »

netham91 wrote: post #22

http://www.whitelabs.com/ A team of biochemists found this. They have a very scientific approach and you should check out the kind of teams they have.

White Labs is not a startup: they've been providing liquid yeasts (to home brewers and breweries) for a fairly long time.

Chris White, of White Labs, wrote a great book on yeast:

https://www.amazon.com/Yeast-Practical-Fermentation-Brewing-...

Re: Ask HN: What are the hottest startups related to beer / brewing?

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Post by bdalgaard »

I just heard a story on NPR about a startup in Boston called Purpose Energy turning waste water from a brewery (Magic Hat brewing) and turning it into usable energy (methane). There are other efforts to use brewing waste more environmentally/economically in permaculture [1], but this is the first I'd heard of them using it to create energy.

Here is the full story.

http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-09-14/massachusetts-pushes-b...

The company is only a small part of the story on clean energy startups and the company doesn't just work with breweries, so it is only slightly related to the original question. Still, it sounds like this is a big problem for breweries to deal with and there is some innovation happening around it.

[1] http://plantchicago.org/

Re: Ask HN: What are the hottest startups related to beer / brewing?

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Post by troeks »

bovermyer wrote: post #19
hood_syntax wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, I love Mikkeller (the Brunch Weasel stout was fantastic), but I just wanted to let you know they're not the only brewery doing low alcohol (note: personal reference) beers! Session beers are becoming more popular for just the reasons you describe, and although they may or may not fit your criteria for being low alcohol, the trend is there. I'd keep your eye out, there's definitely some exciting things developing…

Wait, there's a non-alcoholic stout? Now I'm intrigued.

Nøgne Ø in Norway has a non-alcoholic stout called Inferial Stout. It's a really strange beast.

Re: Ask HN: What are the hottest startups related to beer / brewing?

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Post by mkj »

KoenVdH2 wrote: post #24

Tilt is an affordable innovative density meter. It measures the angle/tilt of the device floating in the fermenting beer. http://tilthydrometer.com/

Hey cool, someone's made one of them.

If only I'd published something in 2012 when I made a start at making a tilt hydrometer but didn't finish it. Silly patents http://www.google.com/patents/US20140260607

Re: Ask HN: What are the hottest startups related to beer / brewing?

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Post by deutronium »

qf303rjr3 wrote: post #36

Marketplace for craft beers, direct from the brewery - https://www.eebria.com/ They also have a trade site - https://www.eebriatrade.com/

eebriatrade seem really interesting! I signed up to that a while ago, so that I can order a keg for christmas :)
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