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Wheat is one of the most useful ingredients available to homebrewers. It can improve head retention, contribute protein, create a softer mouthfeel, support haze and, in the right beer style, provide a distinctive wheat character. But when building a recipe, brewers often encounter two apparently similar ingredients: Wheat Malt and Flaked Wheat. They both come

Choosing malt becomes much easier when you understand what each ingredient is actually supposed to do. Some malts provide most of the fermentable sugars. Others add bread, toast, biscuit, caramel, coffee or chocolate flavors. Some improve body and foam. Others are primarily used to adjust color. And ingredients such as oats, wheat, corn and rice

Malted barley may be the foundation of most beer recipes, but it is far from the only grain available to homebrewers. Flaked oats can make a beer softer and fuller. Wheat can improve foam and add a smooth grain character. Flaked barley can create a dense, creamy head. Corn can lighten the body and flavor

Roasted malts and grains create some of the most distinctive flavors and colors in beer. Chocolate, coffee, cocoa, toast, dark bread, espresso, burnt sugar and deep roasted flavors can all come from relatively small amounts of dark grain. They are essential ingredients in many Porters, Stouts and other dark beers. But roasted grains are not

Crystal and caramel malts are among the most recognizable specialty malts in brewing. They can add sweetness, caramel, honey, toffee, dried fruit, deeper color, body, and complexity to beer. Used carefully, they can transform a simple malt bill into something layered and distinctive. Used excessively, however, they can make a beer heavy, overly sweet, muddy,

Base malt is the foundation of almost every all-grain beer recipe. It usually makes up the largest part of the grain bill and provides most of the starch that will eventually become fermentable sugar. But choosing a base malt is not simply a technical decision. The base malt also creates the background flavor on which

Malt is one of the four fundamental ingredients of beer, together with water, hops, and yeast. While hops may provide some of the most recognizable aromas in modern craft beer, malt creates the foundation on which the entire beer is built. It provides the sugars required for fermentation, but its role goes much further. The