The following seminar paper attends to the morphological composition of cereals, which are used in the brewery. in German breweries it is brewed according to the German purity law with barley malt or wheat malt, but in other countries does not exist this kind of law. In other countries beer is brewed with cereals like un-malted barley, maize or rice in the German Democratic Republic it was brewed with this kinds' of cereals up to the reunification. In Asia and Africa sorghum is used for brewing. There are many other sources used for brewing like spelt, emmer rye, triticale, oat and cassava. The following are the main cereal types, which are used instead of barley malt for brewing purposes.