Flavours and differences grains make

[likesbeer]

I'm new to the brewing scene and started with kits but want to get promoted to perhaps extract brewing soon.
Can someone point me in the right dirrection of what effect/flavour/strength etc all the different grains make. There seems to be a vast number of them and an equal number of ways to prepare them. Sorry if this is a silly question but hoping there is a web site or something someone can point me at to help edificate me ta very much ;o)

[alefric]

Have a look on the Brupaks site, this has a pretty good run down on grains and their differences.

Andrew

[Parva]

Bad idea me giving advice since I'm totally new to all this and about to embark on AG brew #2 but my feeling is stick to one grain (Maris Otter in my case) and experiment with the hops. I've bought a 25Kg sack of M.O. and will be making various brews with different hops. I'll start experimenting with grain once I get my head around the differing hops.

[highwayman]

I agree with Parva regarding the single malt..I am in the process of making my second AG Brew as I type this...20 mins remaining of the boil This one is Summer Lightnening Clone made purely with MO Pale Malt.

My first was Exmoor Gold clone..also MO Pale malt. I racked it into the Corni Keg yesterday.....(From the advice of Parva and others!!)

So far so good...

[Dirty Davey]

have a little look at http://www.howtobrew.com gives a nice little overview of different malt and grain types