Does all grain mean no hops at all??

When someone refers to a recipe being all grain does that mean no hops are used at all??

If not what does it mean?

Also if thats the case can you name a type of all grain beer?

Nope, all grain means brewing with no extract and getting all of your fermentable sugars from mashing grain. There are hops in it as well.

It means you don't use any malt extract. They surely do use hops.

I figured that because hops have to be in beer.... without it its not beer. LOL! Thanks for the answers.

So I made an all extract hefe brew yesterday. Most people would say extract taste worst then all grain correct?

All grain simply refers to another way of brewing. You get the wort from mashing the grain (soaking it in hot water) to activate enzymes that turn the starches in the grain into fermentable sugars. Extract is nothing more than the result of that mashing with 99% of the water sucked out of it, leaving behind the sugars in their powdered form.

Hops are needed in all beers for bitterness at the very least, quite often flavor and aroma.

The brewer has much more individual control over all aspects of the brew with all-grain. That does not necessarily mean the beer will taste better.

+1 to Shecky.
Many will say all-grain tastes better, but carefully made extract beers can and do win awards. More than the extract, attention to fermentation temperatures, proper yeast pitching volumes, and sanitation are critical.

jonbomb said:

I figured that because hops have to be in beer.... without it its not beer. LOL! Thanks for the answers.

So I made an all extract hefe brew yesterday. Most people would say extract taste worst then all grain correct?

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Well you can make a beer without hops, using gruit instead.

I thought All-Grain meant no water hops or yeast. huh.

I never made the connection.

Homercidal said:

I thought All-Grain meant no water hops or yeast. huh.

I never made the connection.

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Always one burn in a question like this....

jonbomb said:

I figured that because hops have to be in beer.... without it its not beer. LOL! Thanks for the answers.

So I made an all extract hefe brew yesterday. Most people would say extract taste worst then all grain correct?

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So are you saying you mad an extract batch without any hops? Hmmmm, that might be a bit different!

You could add a sanitized hop tea and maybe dry hop to get some hoppiness in!

Just an idea!

KevinW said:

So are you saying you mad an extract batch without any hops? Hmmmm, that might be a bit different!

You could add a sanitized hop tea and maybe dry hop to get some hoppiness in!

Just an idea!

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Plus, he's going to have to figure out how to get the water and the yeast in there!!!

Can I be an All Hops brewer then?

Wow, this was going so well........

All hop or all grain for that matter is awfully chewy.

OsbornBrewing said:

Can I be an All Hops brewer then?

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Mmm, that sounds good. I'll have that.

OsbornBrewing said:

Can I be an All Hops brewer then?

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Please send a 6'er of that my way! MMMMMM HOP Juice!

way to work that dumb and dumber quote in there. Thought I was on a soup forum for a minute. Hhhmmmm, hop soup, there's an idea.

mikeysab said:

way to work that dumb and dumber quote in there. Thought I was on a soup forum for a minute. Hhhmmmm, hop soup, there's an idea.

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Ya' caught that did ya'?

They should sticky this thread.

what's sticky, is that an ingredient in all grain?

I just spent 3 months torturing a laborer with "g'day mate" and " lets throw another shrimp on the barby", so if I missed that one, I'd be dumb. The joke was that he's "straight off the boat" Irish, and apparently never saw the movie, since he told me " I'm fookin Idish, ya ginny jerkoff"

All Grain and no yeast can also be Malta, tastes like ****, but what are you going to do.

jonbomb said:

Most people would say extract taste worst then all grain correct?

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Those people would be elitists and they are wrong.

Hang Glider said:

Many will say all-grain tastes better, but carefully made extract beers can and do win awards.

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Strange but true! I just got a silver at the Hangar 24 competition for my Swooper Stout, an all grain that I was really proud of. I also got a gold for a simple extract-based belgian dubbel and a silver for an even simpler extract brown. Which I was really happy about, but the brown was just dark DME, Cascade hops and US-05.

What about an all grain gruit...oh ya still not beer......