What Ingredients are in Beer?
What is beer made out of? This is one of the most commonly asked questions aspiring brewers have and thankfully it’s one with a nice simple answer.
There are 4 main ingredients in beer: hops, grains or malt extract (depending on which process you’re using), yeast and water.
The role of the different ingredients is:
· Water – Without water beer (or any beverage for that matter) would be impossible.Because more than 95% of your final product will be water, the quality of the water you use will have a big impact on the quality of the final product. So keep that in mind.
· Yeast – Yeast is that which turns your sweet brown tea into beer. Yeast is a single cell organism that eats sugar and converts it into alcohol and CO2. This process is called fermentation.
· Grains or Malt Extract – Barley is probably the most common type of grain used today although there are plenty of beers out there that use wheat, corn, and even sorghum or rice.
If you’re using the All Grain method, you’ll be purchasing barley in its whole form. If you’re using the extract method, you’ll be purchasing barley malt,
which is a soup of sugar and soluble starches that’s ready for fermentation.
· Hops – Hops are those things that give your DIY beer its flavor and aroma. They also work to counteract the sweetness left over from the fermentation process and act as a bacterial inhibitor.
There are many kinds of hops and different ones produce different flavors.
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Edited by Cody
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