Craft Beer & Brewing Course
Fundamentals of Malt
In this course, you'll gain a deeper understanding of what's often called the soul of beer--malt.
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Malt is to beer as grapes are to wine, as honey is to mead, and as apples are to cider. It supplies the sugars that yeast cells convert into alcohol and carbon dioxide. Without malt, beer as we know it would not be. In this course, you'll gain a deeper understanding of what's often called the soul of beer--malt.
Course contents
6 chapters, 16 lessons
Chapter 1
Welcome
- Welcome
Chapter 2
WHAT IS MALT?
- What is malt?
- How malt is made
Chapter 3
TYPES OF MALT
- Types of malt
- Base malts
- Crystal and caramel malts
- Roasted malts
- Malts made from grains other than barley
Chapter 4
WORKING WITH MALT
- Malt analysis
- Crush considerations
Chapter 5
MAKING MALT AT HOME
- Obtaining raw grain
- Steeping
- Germination
- Drying, kilning, and roasting
- Practice makes perfect
Chapter 6
Thank You!
- Thank You!
What students say
Loved Learning All About Malts, Malting, and Maltsters!
This is a great, short introduction course that helps give you just enough information to understand the raw ingredients and processes in malting.
Kalin Golev
Informative and give good basic information about malting process. Also some good hints when selecting and buying malts, like moisture content, malt extract potential, etc.
Excellent Introduction
I never imagined so much went into malt.
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Good Information
it was a good information course. I will like to see some videos as well.
Good Intro
Good overview of malt
Beneficial Course
Course material with explanation of terms used were well thought out and executed in the video.
Nice course
Good quick review
Good quick review. Have your malt analysis sheets handy as an aide to the topic.
great
Clear and deep
Awesome course
as a homebrewing of 3 years i found this course educational and informative.
informative
concise yet informative and interesting
Fitting
Very informative and the text was easy to understand.
straight forward, delivered what it claimed
Very nice light intro to malts, great for anyone looking to get their feet wet with some new terms and concepts.
Fundamentals of Malt
Good course
Importante e relevante temática
the soul of beer
Good basic all text course. Relatively short and to the point. In the future, could add some video or more detailed photos and diagrams.
Awesome
very informational
Fundamentals of Malt