I have just brewed my first batch of beer and after reading the booster pack ingredients to add to the Cooper's tin I see there is mainly corn syrup as an ingredient, I would like to use a healthier alternative such as organic raw sugar, is this possible? Or could someone please advise me on other sugars to use. Much appreciated. Lance

I make a delicious British Golden Ale with about 10% corn in the grist. Thus far I have only used flaked maize for this corn component. I guess the different forms of corn for a beer would be: Flaked maize Corn meal (requiring a cereal mash) Popped corn (popped with an air popper, not oil) Will these various options produce roughly the same results in terms of flavor/aroma/etc.?

I will be boiling corn cobs and I was thinking about reusing this water to make a brew batch. I know some commercial breweries use corn as an ingredient, but I am unsure how. I am thinking that a light blonde beer would work well, like a Corona. It could be an all-grain batch, where I would use the water to mash my grain... Or it could be an extract batch, where I would used this "tinted" water in the …

During the fermentation my mash stopped bubbling after 5 days! Can yeast be added? I think I didn't put enough the first time!!

I've been taught to look down on breweries that use corn in their beer, because it's a cheaper ingredient, and obviously men would never put corn in their beer. That being said, why would you put flaked corn in your beer? I've heard generically of adding corn to more closely approximate a commercial clone, but that leaves me questioning, in what way does it change?

I love pop-corn (who doesn't I guess), so I think it might be used in beer during mash. Has anyone used them? How did it work? How should I do it? Should I expect something interesting from it?