Repeatability and consistency are of paramount importance to commercial brewers.
Brewing your own beer may not carry quite the same level of risk as skydiving or mountain climbing, but it pays to understand the comparatively few hazards.
Corn is a major ingredient in certain beer styles. For example, some North American lagers are brewed with corn to achieve a very light body.
Mashing is what turns regular malted barley into the wort that ultimately becomes beer. And as with most other aspects of homebrewing, there are as many ways to mash as there are brewers.
If you keg your homebrew, you probably use repurposed soda kegs (a.k.a. Corny kegs).
Homebrewers today enjoy a wider selection of malts than ever -- so wide, in fact, that it’s easy to become overwhelmed.
