Malting is broken down into three steps in order to help to release the starches in the barley:...

Home brewers talk a lot about gravity. It's not the type of gravity that keeps us on the Earth, but the gravity of their beer recipe. This includes the beer's specific gravity, original gravity, and final gravity....

The Oxford Companion to Beer Heat Exchanger, a piece of brewery equipment designed to quickly raise or lower the temperature of wort or beer....

Mashing In brewing and distilling, mashing is the process of combining a mix of grain (typically malted barley with supplementary grains such as corn, sorghum, rye, or wheat), known as the "grain bill", and water, known ...