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Malt
From understanding base malts to working with specialty malts, these articles will teach you all about the backbone of your beer.
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Brewing Continental-Style Lagers: Tips From the Pros
Continental-styled lagers are often malt-forward beers. We sat down with two award-winning brewers to talk malts for your next bottom-fermen
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Home Malting
Malting barley at home may sound like a lot of work, but it’s actually pretty easy and doesn’t require much equipment you don’t alread
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Understanding Base Malt
Though not as glamorous as hops and yeast, or even specialty malts, for that matter, base malt is the backbone of beer. Learn what different
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Master Malt Analysis
Get a better understanding of what makes up the malt you use by learning how to interpret a malt spec sheet.
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Understanding Malt Lingo
There are plenty of technical terms that surround the cereal grains that we brewers use as a source of sugar to make beer. Understanding the
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Growing Barley
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Base Malts
The foundation grains that beers are built upon.
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Is it Crystal or Caramel Malt?
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Micro Maltsters Roundtable
If you want to make a truly local beer, try sourcing locally-made malt. Four pros discuss craft malting.
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Why Malt Matters – The Basics on the Backbone of Beer
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50 Years of Maris Otter
Many barley varieties suitable for malting live short lives, forgotten when something new comes along. Not so for Maris Otter, which celebra
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Mr. Wizard
Why do some grains need to be malted?