Topic: All Grain Brewing
Troubleshooting a Stuck Sparge
Tactics for helping your wort go with the flow.
A Guide to Lautering
Considering how important it is to the brewing process, lautering (also known as sparging) doesn’t get much respect. Many brewers see it as simply the process of rinsing grains. They give it
Water Treatments
Water is the main ingredient of beer. The many different styles of beer we have today evolved for many different reasons, not the least of which is the chemistry of the local
Understanding pH
The level of pH in your mash, wort, and beer affects processes from enzyme function to hop extraction to yeast vitality. Understanding pH helps you manipulate pH levels for great-tasting beer. But
Brew-In-A-Bag
Get mashing with less equipment and steps
Making the Most of Your Mash
Refine your mashing variables and fine tune your technique.
Mash Programs
Single infusion, step mashing, decoction — and beyond
Milling
Control your crush for better extraction and lautering.
Extract to All-Grain
Adapt your favorite extract recipes to brew with grains, or convert your all-grain recipes over to extract.
Base Malts
The foundation grains that beers are built upon.
Your First All-Grain Beer
Brew a homebrew with malted grains from start to finish.
Wort Production (with malted grains)
Making wort from malted grains gives the brewer the freedom to control the attributes of his or her wort, most notably, its fermentability. You have many options on an all-grain brew day.
