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due in large part to the fact that allows one to entirely skip the mashing step.

Brewing with extract is the most common method used by beginning home brewers,

and some never actually move away from this method.

This is the Brulosophy podcast. I'm your host

Marshall Schott and in this episode Bruosophy contributor Malcolm Fraser

and I are going to be discussing Malt extract, the various forms that comes in the

way it's made, commonly touted pros and cons, and of course some

experiments that we've performed on the topic.

Knowing how long you've been brewing, Malcolm, I bet cash money you started out as an extract brewer.

Yeah, absolutely. In fact fact I went through a long

period probably different than a lot of Brewers nowadays but I went through a long

period of just extract brewing because I had a little bit of fear of switching over and at the time I didn't think it was necessary I thought

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