A decade ago, there were only a handful of choices- all lagers, with very little differentiation in style. Today there are over 250 microbreweries in India, each having 4-10 beers on the tap. A lot of draught beer and bottled beer startups are also mushrooming. Craft beer is one of the most fiercely competed arena, with people trying to introduce newer styles, newer ingredients, and innovation in every aspect of brewing.

Beer Brewing is a 5000-year-old craft, which is probably older than our civilization. Hence making a decent beer in one’s kitchen is not as daunting as one might like to imagine. The most complicated of it being the mashing. It is an activity where the brewer performs saccrification (conversion of starch into fermentable sugars a.k.a. maltose and other water-soluble maltodextrins). If you are just getting your feet wet in this hobby, my recommendation is to start with a simple malt extract based beer. It takes about 20-30 minutes to brew and another 10-14 days to ferment.