Taste ingredients before brewing with them.

There are several ways to try ingredients before your brew day. Common techniques are tasting wort, chewing on grain SMASH beers or making a test batch. None of these approaches are ideal since making a batch that doesn’t turn out as expected sucks and tasting wort isn’t the same as a finished beer. In this tutorial, I will show you how to isolate different ingredients, in small batches, all at once. We will focus on five grains today, but there’s no limit to the number of batches you can brew on a given day. But there’s more! You can use this technique to test hops, different yeasts strains or to design a beer recipe! [Read More]-Scoundrel

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Taste ingredients before brewing with them.