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Advanced All-Grain Methods

Craft Beer & Brewing Course

Advanced All-Grain Methods

In Craft Beer & Brewing's Advanced all-grain methods course, you'll learn how to make better wort to produce better beer.

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This course will take your all-grain brew day to the next level. Learn the ins and outs of conditioning and crushing malt, stepped mash protocols, continuous sparge methods, and the infamous decoction mash (It's not as bad as you've heard). Join Craft Beer & Brewing Contributing Editor Dave Carpenter for this advanced look at getting the most from your grain.

Course contents

9 chapters, 48 lessons, 46m of video

Chapter 1

Introduction

  • Welcome
  • In this course...
  • Electric RIMS
  • Insulated mash-lauter tun with propane burner
  • Mash Intro1:24

Chapter 2

Crushing and Conditioning Malt

  • Crushing Your Malt
  • Malt
  • Crushing and Conditioning Malt (Video)1:37
  • Wet Mill Malt
  • Wet Malting1:37
  • Evaluate Your Crush
  • Malt Mill1:51

Chapter 3

Review of Single Infusion Mashing

  • Theory of Stepped Mashing
  • Theory of Stepped Mashing
  • Why Step Mashing Matters

Chapter 4

Commonly Used Mash Steps

  • Ferulic Acid Rest
  • β-glucanase Rest
  • Protein Rest
  • β-amylase Rest
  • α-amylase Rest
  • Mash Out
  • Simple Step Mash
  • Cereal Mash
  • Turbid Mashing

Chapter 5

Methods of Stepped Mashing

  • Methods of Stepped Mashing
  • Infusion
  • Direct Heat
  • RIMS and HERMS
  • Decoction

Chapter 6

Step Mash Demonstration

  • Fly Sparge5:46
  • Stepped Rims0:50
  • Demo I3:07
  • Demo II3:32

Chapter 7

Continuous (Fly) Sparging

  • Fly Sparging
  • Fly Sparging
  • Sparging I4:01
  • Sparging II3:33
  • Sparging III2:15

Chapter 8

Decoction Mashing

  • Decoction Mashing
  • Decoction Mashing Continued
  • Decoction2:35
  • Decoction II3:14
  • Hochkurz Decoction Mash
  • Decoct I4:22
  • Decoct II4:58
  • Summary of Decoction Mashing

Chapter 9

Conclusion

  • Conclusion0:53
  • Thank You!

What students say

5.0 from 3 reviews
  • Of the some 40 different video brewing courses I have reviewed online, this video course was my favorite. It was smartly organized and well put together. Cheers!
    Robert Fawbush
  • I really like the way the instructor explained the process in a simple language and with real examples for homebrewers using the 10gal mash tun.
    Jose Mendoza Berrios
  • He presented the information in a practical, hands on way that will help me improve my home brewing.
    John Applegate