

Some continued to brew that way indefinitely, while others learned to mash grain and brew entirely from scratch after having mastered the basics. There was a time when most new homebrewers got their start with malt extract. Whether you’ve never brewed with extract or are rediscovering its time-saving convenience after many years, we’ve got you covered with a few suggestions for making great beer-perhaps even your best beer ever-from malt extract. It’s called malt extract, and it deserves another look.Īmerican Homebrewers Association Director Gary Glass recently encouraged Zymurgy readers to embrace extract as a time-saving convenience that can fill your homebrew pipeline without filling up your Saturday (see From the Glass in the Jan/Feb 2016 issue). Fortunately, there’s an easy way to brew when you’re big on thirst but short on time. Makes no sense, does it? Yet we homebrewers do the very same thing when we cite “not enough time” as our reason for not brewing as often as we’d like. Meeting’s cancelled! If you can’t get there the long way, you might as well not go at all. So, without delay, you pull onto the exit ramp, call your client, turn around, and head back home. And the exit you need is just off to the right. Your navigation system has suggested an alternate route that doesn’t just bypass traffic, but reaches your destination even earlier than you had planned. You swear for a bit, look at your watch, and pick up the phone.īut before you can call to say you’ll be delayed, something catches your eye. An uninterrupted river of red stretches ahead as far as you can see. You’re running late for an important meeting with a valuable client when traffic screeches to a halt. This article is an exclusive online extra from the May/June 2016 issue of Zymurgy magazine.
