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Beer Raw Material Knowledge

Many people like to drink beer, many occasions need beer! That beer is the raw material you know?
Beer raw materials, although some differences, in addition to malt, hops, water, beer yeast can also
be used in addition to raw materials, namely rice, corn, starch, sugar, etc., up to 50% of the amount
of malt.

 

1. Malt: the main raw material for beer brewing, mainly maltose made of two-sided barley (beer barley).
This barley variety is improved for brewery.
 
2. Hops: Hops can give the beer a unique aroma and refreshing bitter taste. Hops is Sangke's grass,
beer brewing is the use of female plants born flowers. Cold and cold places are cultivated.
 
3. Water: brewing water on the quality of beer a great impact, so the amount of water is made or not
to determine the important conditions for the plant. Take the Taipei Beer Factory as an example, with a
special reference to the clear water of Tsingtan Weir and the handling of "soft water". General light beer
(quite ordinary beer in Taiwan) with soft water, dark beer with hard water is better.
 
4.Beer Yeast: Yeast for brewing beer. Mostly Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Sac-charomyces cerevisiae) different
varieties. E.C.Hansen (1883) began to isolate the yeast and use it for brewing beer. The following yeast of the
Carlsberg Brewing Institute of Denmark is famous. The cell morphology is the same as that of other cultured yeast,
which is a nearly spherical ellipsoid and is different from wild yeast. Beer Yeast is a typical above-mentioned fermented
yeast commonly used in beer production. Cell vitamins, high protein content, can be used for food, medicinal and feed
yeast, but also from which the extraction of cytochrome C, nucleic acid, glutathione, coagulation, coenzyme A and adenosine
triphosphate and so on. Biotin, pantothenic acid, thiamine, pyridoxine and inositol are commonly used in the determination of
vitamins in the determination of vitamins.

5.Ingredients: When the use of rice, corn, starch and other malt outside the raw materials as the arrival of beer extract, the use
of raw materials for the taste of beer tend to be stable, adjust the proportion of the use of raw materials can change the type of
beer flavor. Do not use the raw materials of beer called whole wheat beer.

 

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