Beer - Food Technology

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Malting

  • Allow barley to stand in warm air
  • Allowed to sprout
  • Drying 
  • Grinding
  • Added to water to extract sugars
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Mash Tun

  • Malth and cereal roughly milled and hot water added
  • Temperature 65c
  • Takes 5 hours
  • Wort rich in dissolved sugars
  • Drained
  • Boiled
  • Hops added
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Process

  • Malting of barely to produce maltose
  • Mash Tun stage
  • Wort allowed to drain away
  • Hops added which add flavour
  • Wort filtered + rapidly cooled
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Fermentation

  • CO2 produced which carries the yeats to the top of the beer
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