In the whole brewing process of craft beer, the first thing we need to do is crush the malt in order to saccharify the wort. Today we will learn about the importance of crushing malt.

What you do once the beer is out of a keg is just as important as getting it in there in the first place. Cleaning and sanitizing your kegs is one of the most important steps in your beer brewing process. You can use several different solutions to sanitize your kegs, and plenty of brands exist within each category. Let’s take a more general look at the best sanitizing solutions for keg cleaning so you can decide which one will work best for you.

For a practice as old as beer brewing, it might surprise some new brewers to learn that the idea of a wheat beer is a rather new concept. Compared to other styles of beer, wheat beers haven't been around all that long outside of the places they originated—Germany and Belgium. Only within approximately the last century did demand rise for this beer outside of those regions.

With as popular as craft beer has become in the past few years, it isn’t accurate to say that the craft beer industry is in its infancy stages anymore. As the industry gets larger and older, we can start to get a better idea of how it might change going forward.