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It's time to pick a recipe for your first beer. For your first brew, try a recipe that uses malt syrup rather than all-grains. What's the difference? Well, to explain that, we've got to explain a little bit about how professional brewers make beer. Brewers make a "mash" out of a mixture of different kinds of malted barley. They cook the barley in water at temperatures between 150 and 170 degrees. Once the grains are strained out, there's a sweet, thick liquid left, called "wort". You can make wort from grains, but it's a major undertaking and probably something that you don't want to try for your first brew. Or you can buy malt extract, which is basically condensed wort. Brewing from grains is called -- predictably -- all-grain brewing. Brewing from extract is called extract brewing. (I told you this was simple.) A lot of folks try to combine the convenience of extract brewing with the flavor of grain brewing by making a wort out of extract and grain. And that's what I did. I tried to mimic Bass Ale, one of my favorite British beers. I found two recipes online that claim to mimic Bass, but didn't care for either of them. So I made up my own. Follow this recipe, or choose a recipe from one of the web resources (pick either an extract or a small mash recipe) and follow the same steps: Bass Ale, more or less
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