For our first post here, I figured we may as well start with the basics. The procedures of brewing beer have been tested by time, and while one may study and learn more about these procedures for the rest of their lives, it is actually quite a simple process. When brewing beer, the name of the game is sugar. Fermentable and infermentable sugars are extracted from the starches of the malted barley in a process called mash (orange box). Three different enzymes are activated w