About
What BeerHQ is
A reference for people who want to understand beer rather than collect it: what the styles are, why they taste the way they do, what goes wrong, and what to drink with dinner.
What it is built on
BeerHQ is a structured catalogue rather than a blog. Styles, ingredients, processes, faults, foods and reference beers are modelled as records with relationships between them, and the pages are rendered from those records. That is why a hop page knows which styles use it, and why asking for a beer with no alcohol removes full-strength beer from the results rather than ranking it lower.
It currently carries 0 styles, 210 reference beers, 0 foods, 0 faults and 181 glossary terms, among others.
How it decides what to say
Factual statements are recorded as claims with sources attached, and a claim is only described as verified when somebody has read the source and recorded where in it the statement appears. “There is a citation” and “somebody checked the citation” are different states, and BeerHQ keeps them different — including where that means admitting a claim is editorial judgement rather than evidence.
Where a question has real demand and no safe answer, it is registered and held rather than quietly ignored, with the reason recorded. See alcohol information for what that covers.
What it deliberately is not
- Not a beer database. A catalogue of every product decays into a liability within a year without continuous ingestion, and BeerHQ has no such source. It carries a small set of reference beers that anchor styles a reader already knows.
- Not a rating site. There are no scores. Beers are described, compared and explained; whether one is better than another is not a fact BeerHQ has.
- Not a shop, and not affiliated. Nothing here is a purchase link and nothing is paid placement.
- Not a health resource. BeerHQ makes no health claims about alcohol in either direction.
Who publishes it
BeerHQ is operated by HEKNO Ltd, which runs a range of reference and decision-support products. HEKNO Ltd is registered in Scotland under company number SC895711. Registered office: Borthwick Farm Cottage, Gorebridge, EH23 4QZ, United Kingdom.
It is a brand rather than a separate company, which is why the terms, privacy notice and content-use policy are HEKNO’s rather than BeerHQ’s own. What BeerHQ adds on top of those is the part specific to writing about alcohol: an 18+ entry requirement, jurisdiction-bound terminology, and a set of questions it refuses to answer.
Corrections and anything else: hello@hekno.co.uk.