Good malt makes good beer, and good beer makes everyone happy. I don't think it can be overstated how important malt is in making your favorite craft beer. Malt is the foundation that all other beer ingredients build on. During the act of malting cereal grains, there are two primary goals, enzyme cr

These two terms, malting and mashing. What do they mean to you? The malting process is a fairly broad and generic term given to processing raw grains just as mashing can have a fairly broad definition as well. So let’s delve in to investigate why these two terms can be so fluid and to use this under

Often, when talking about homebrew with folks who are either new to the hobby or who just drink beer, explaining malts and the mashing process is often the hardest part. Brewing is fundamentally about creating sugar-rich liquid which, when inoculated with yeast and fermented, will yield alcohol and