You can open up a whole new world of brewing ingredients beyond malted barley and wheat when you master using a cereal mash to convert starch to sugars in grains such as corn, rice, oats as well as sweet potato, pumpkin, sorghum, millet, and rye. While many of these ingredients were looked down upon as just cost-saving measures used by large commercial brewers, homebrewers can explore new flavors by experimenting with cereal mashes to unlock new sources of sugars for yeast in your beers. BYO’s Technical Editor Ashton Lewis shows you how to do your own cereal mashes at home.
Decoction mashing is a time-honored German brewing technique that intimidates many brewers. Brew Your Own Magazine’s Technical Editor Ashton Lewis walks you through the basics of decoction including how to do it
Brewing beer from all-grain takes significantly more time than brewing an extract beer. Some of the extra time comes from added steps in the procedure. More time is also needed to heat
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