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Technical Documentation

Background science for the work on this site, one topic per page: funk development, cooked-fruit chemistry, acids, and whatever comes next.

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How these pages are made

Each page starts as a research question. I work through the topic with AI help: reading the literature, arguing with the answers and checking the arithmetic, until I am satisfied the picture is sound and useful in practice. Only then do I have a summary document written from that research. That summary is what gets published here.

So these pages are settled notes rather than work in progress, but they are still a homebrewer's reading of the literature, not peer-reviewed work. Load-bearing claims carry a confidence tag (High / Med / Low); treat Low as "verify before acting". A page is revised, with a new version number, when the research moves on.

Interactive benches

The calculators that turn these notes into working arithmetic live in Calculators.

Where these pages are used

Designs in Maillard preparations and assessments in Ingredient Analysis link back to the page that explains them.

Topics

  • Skills: The AI skills behind the brewing work, grouped by studio, each with its guide and a free download (CC0).
  • Lambic Fundamentals: Nine linked pages on lambic and blended lambic: succession and chemistry, precursors, protocols, ingredients, blending and the empirical record.
  • Cooked Fruit Fundamentals for Mixed-Fermentation Beer: Mechanism, controls, flavour axes, stage architecture, beer-side accounting and hazards of cooked (Maillard) fruit preparations for mixed-fermentation beer.