There are three main methods for brewing beer: extract, partial mash and all-grain. While there are a number of differences between the three, the main difference really comes down to how the base of the beer is created.Extract and partial mash both incorporate the use of malt extract to form the ba

What is Sparging?Sparging is the rinsing of the grain bed to extract as much of the sugars from the grain as possible without extracting mouth-puckering tannins from the grain husks. Typically, 1.5 times as much water is used for sparging as for mashing (e.g., 8 lbs. malt at 2 qt./lb. = 4 gallon mas

Home brewing goes back millennia. Beer has the distinction of being one of the first of many alcoholic beverages created when man began settling down and growing grain.A Sumerian tablet found in archaeological sites contained an almost 4,000-year-old poem that mentioned the earliest-known Western ci