Beer - Food Technology
- Created by: Lucy White
- Created on: 02-06-13 18:29
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- Beer
- Making
- Fermentable sugars must be extracted from grains
- E.g. Barley
- Malting
- Allow barely to stand in warm air
- Allowed to sprout
- Drying
- Grinding
- Added to water to extract sugars
- Mash Tun
- Malt + Cereal roughly milled + hot water added
- Temperature 65c
- Takes 5 hours
- Wort rich in dissolved sugars
- Drained
- Boiled + hops added for flavour
- Process
- Malting of barely to produce maltose
- Mash Tun stage
- Wort allowed to drain away
- Hops added
- Wort filtered + rapidly cooled
- Fermentation
- Carbon dioxide produced caries yeast to the surface
- Making
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