Pump Up Your Extract Brewing Skills

Brew You Own Magazine

Author                  Sam Wammack

Issue                     October 1996

There's one thing for sure about malt extract - it's great stuff! History doesn't record the name of the 19th century brewmaster who first had the idea of concentrating and storing unfermented beer wort so the beer could be brewed at a later time, but he had a good idea. By changing malted barley into malt extract, a brewery could avoid problems with insects and mold and still store grain long past the harvest season. Also, concentrated malt extract was easier to ship to breweries located far from barley-growing areas.

I'm sick of cleaning all these bottles!
How do kegs work with home brew?

At the home brew shop we hear those statements quite a lot.  We will run through the steps involved, hopefuly this will keep the Misses or the Hubby off your back about all those bottles laying around,