Brewing & Homebrewing Terms

The fermentable mixture, usually a combination of grains and hops, from which alcohol or spirits can be distilled.

A container or brewing vessel designed to hold a mash at a constant or increasing temperature during the brewing process.

The Original Gravity (OG) of a beer is the specific gravity of the beer measured before fermentation has started.

at bottling time, it is the addition of sugar, such as corn sugar, to enable the yeast in beer to naturally product carbonation

a device used to measure the Specific gravity of liquids by measuring the degree to which light is bent as it enters the liquid sample.