Grains

Brewing with Crystal Malts

Learn about how to use crystal malts to get the right color and flavor range in your next homebrew.

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What are some tips for making gluten-free beer?

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Making Specialty Grains

The Wiz lavishly answers questions from two frugal homebrewers on saving your brewers yeast and making your own specialty grains.

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Spent Grain Dog Treats

If you have spent grains and hungry dogs, try making treats from the grains for your canine friends.

Using Roasted Barley: Tips from the Pros

Two pros give tips on using roasted barley — the dark, aromatic malt of stouts — in your home brewery.

Degrees of Crystal: Tips from the Pros

Two brewers and one maltster give crystal clear tips on using the various colors of caramel malt.

Brown Malt

It has been known as blown, porter and snap malt, but homebrewers know it as brown malt, if they know it at all. Its mellow roast charact

Choosing Specialty Malts

The Wiz gives his two cents on malt madness and helps a brewer whose ales have been beyond the pale.

Dark Roasted Barley

Roasted barley is not a malt, but it is the stuff of stouts . . . and more. Whenever you need an aromatic, espresso-like flavor or a dark

Chocolate Malt

I’m not sure of anything as ubiquitously distributed and enjoyed the world over as “chockies.” From the creamy goodness of milk chocolate

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Back in Black: The Truth About Black Patent Malt

Burnt? Acrid? Or just misunderstood? Learn the truth about how black malt is made and what it’s good for. Plus: four clone

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Using Specialty Malts

Ever wonder what’s so special about specialty malts? Find out how they’re made and how to get the most out of this key family of ingredie