How are the Master Craftsman beer kits made?
We start in exactly the same way that beer has been brewed at Cascade since 1824. Grains of pale malted barley are milled to form a dry grist. Depending on the style of beer, crystal malt and roasted barley may also be milled and mixed in the grist. These contribute colour and flavour. The grist is mixed into a mash tun along with hot water to make a slurry (mash). The mash is stirred while the temperature is adjusted to control the breakdown of the starchy content of the grain into fermentable sugars. The mash is transferred to a lauter tun where the sugar solution (wort) is filtered through the spent grain husks. Hot water is sprayed onto the spent grain bed to wash through the remaining extract into the kettle. In the kettle the wort is boiled and hop pellets are added. The boiling creates flavour, colour and converts hop components to bittering contributors. The hot wort flows into a whirlpool where unwanted solids (proteins, hop fines) are separated out leaving a malt extract solu
