Topic: All Grain Brewing
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.
Keep Your Mash Tun Insulated
An insulating jacket for a brew pot, which can be easily removed when it’s time to start the boil. Lose less than 4 °F (2 °C) per hour when mashing. It’s perfect for single-vessel brew-in-a-bag setups or can even be used for a standalone mash tun or hot liquor tank.
Increasing Mash Efficiencies
This question reminds me of a phone call I once received from a winemaker who was considering building a brewery, and the plan was to build a 400-barrel brewhouse (12,400 gallons per
Sparge Temperatures
I remember when I first began homebrewing back in 1986 and almost immediately wanted to start brewing all-grain. At that time the information related to homebrewing was a little more difficult to
Starches in the Mash
This is really a great question and one that brewers started contemplating shortly after RIMS (recirculating infusion mashing systems) brewing became popular. The two main goals of malt milling are particle size
Build a Mash Paddle
If you are an all-grain brewer, a mash paddle is a critical piece of brewing equipment to ensure that any “dough balls” are busted apart, that the mash temp is evenly distributed throughout the mash tun, and to generally just keep things stirred up. Here’s how to build your own.
Large-Scale Homebrew Systems
Be sure to check out the comparison chart of all the models covered here at the bottom of this article. Homebrew systems have gone BIG. Large three- vessel brewing systems are simply
Full Batch All-Grain Brewing in a Small Space
My brewing obsession began when a friend invited me to his house to make beer with him. He had a large house with a basement where he kept all his beer equipment,
