Hops & Grains Used to Brew Beer for Home Brewing Beginners

Hops & Grains Used to Brew Beer for Home Brewing Beginners
This begins the next segment. I’m JB with Austin Home Brew Supply, and we’re going to discuss a little bit about some of the ingredients that go into beer. We discussed a little bit earlier the four ingredients are water, barley, hops and yeast. We’re talking about the barley and hops right now. These are the four different varieties of barley that are used in brewing. These are what are called specialty grains. They give the particular character to different beers such as…If any of you all like stouts, like Guinness, it uses a lot of this very dark roasted malt, such as this one will be called for instance, Black Patent. This is called chocolate malt here, also used in a lot of your darker more roasted types of beers; everything from brown ales to porters, and even stouts again. The lighter grains are used for lighter beers generally. This is called crystal malt. It’s also known as caramel malt. This one here is called carapils. This is used to get some body to beer; it’s also known as dextrin malt. These here are hops. This is some beautiful hops brought by a customer recently who just came back from Washington State. They just did the harvest up there, and this is a variety of hop; for instance called cascade. It’s from, like I said, Washington State, which is a very big hop growing area of America. This is whole leaf hops. Now, most folks, when you’re starting out and including myself and even most professional breweries, will use palletized hops. Palletized hops are here. They look a little more like pallets, obviously. A lot of people say they look like rabbit food. Those are palletized hops. I wanted you all to see the whole leaf of the hops, because they’re so pretty.