WOW- was last night's class epic.
We brewed a stout. I had all the ingredients separated out- so the students tasted each of the grains.
I brought 6 stouts of varying styles to sample- we compared head density and color, flavors, colors, hop levels- a WIDE band of stouts were represented.
BJCP stout guidelines for the 6 different recognized styles were compared.
I read the stout section out of a really cool book- Beer Craft. It's got infographics, recipe theory, it's really cool.
Total and constant discussion of different grain characteristics, and we did the mash part of an all-grain beer. (mash-out and boil is next week) This allowed students to have hands on time with all the steps- we discussed manifolds, different sparge methods, single versus multi-step mash, malting, grain types, different mash temps, mash tun types, etc etc etc.
Seriously- this was the best class yet!
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