All-grain brewing provides more flexibility and creativity, but it requires more equipment; extract brewing is quicker, and you spend less on equipment up front.

A boil kettle and a heat source, most likely a propane burner, are still needed to round out this all grain brewing setup, but the core of an all-grain setup is the mash tun and hot liquor tank.

Then 19, Dan Kurzrock was brewing beer in his frat house at the University of California, Los Angeles, the way all homebrewers do: by soaking barley in hot water, removing the grain and adding ...