Topic: Malt
Understanding Malt COAs
As an agricultural product, barley from crop-to-crop, maltster-to-maltster, or location-to-location varies. If you want to be precise in your brewing, understanding the information that comes with a malt’s certificate of analysis is a big step in that direction.
The Lighter Side of Specialty Malt
Specialty malts provide many key aspects to your beer such as flavor, aroma, color, body, mouthfeel, sweetness, acidity, and head retention. Take a closer look at the specialty malts available to homebrewers that fall below 30 Lovibond.
Brewing with Smoked Malt
Smoked beers are rising in popularity, but many brewers shy away from using smoked malts because they are intimidated or simply don’t know how to use smoked ingredients. Learn how to unlock
Using a Malt COA to Brew Better Beer
Your Malt COA is a valuable brewing tool if you know how to use the listed numbers. It can be a roadmap to maximize your malt during a brew day and that
Malt: Beer Ingredient Workshop with Ashton Lewis
Malt is often overshadowed by other brewing ingredients, but it is truly the backbone of beer. Learn how to better use malt in your brewing and how to best brew malt-forward beers
Using Crystal Malt
Crystal malts run the gamut in color and flavors they contribute to a brew. Beyond these positive characteristics, crystal malts enhance a beer’s body and help with foam stability. They do come
Brewing with Rye
Rye is a versatile ingredient that can lend itself to a variety of beer styles. It can bring a pepper/spiciness and earthy flavor to beers, while also contributing positive characteristics from increased
Learn How to Smoke Your Beers
Beer produced with smoked malts don’t need to be smoke bombs. Learn to craft your own smoked malts and use them in recipes.
SMaSH Brewing
SMaSH stands for Single Malt and Single Hop recipe design. SMaSH takes the idea of simplicity in brewing to its logical extreme — by limiting the brewer to one malt, one hop
Crystal Malts: Tips from the Pros
In addition to lending color and flavor to beer, crystal malts enhance body and help with foam stability. Three pros make the best ways to use crystal malt crystal clear.
Evaluating Your Malt
These days hops get the most attention of the major brewing ingredients, but don’t overlook the importance of the backbone – and star depending on the style – of beer: Malt. But
A Dive Into Honey Malt
The rule of thumb when brewing with extracts is to steep crystal, caramel, and roasted specialty malts, and to mash specialty malts that contain starch. When crystal and caramel* malts are made,
