About The Main Stages Of Making Beer

About The Main Stages Of Making Beer
By Alex
The first one of several stages of making beer is malting which is a stage that requires using barley that is the key ingredient in the making of beer. Also, brewing beer in hot water is not going to give good results because the beer must be allowed to germinate which will allow enzymes to attack the grain content and make it dissolve in water while it is being brewed. What happens then is that much starch gets transformed into sugars that are ideal for fermentation and the beginning of germination is the stage that is known as malting, which is one of the prerequisite stages of making beer, and which is an industry in itself that is known as the malting industry.

Furthermore, the malting process requires to first steeping the grain for about three days after which it must be spread out in layers for seven days so that it germinates and to stop the germination use is made of desiccation in a kiln.

Solubilise Starch And Proteins In The Malt

There is another stage of making beer which is the brewing stage which helps to solubilise the starch as well as proteins in the malt, and which requires three liters of water to be kept at fifty degrees Centigrade for every kilogram of malt and the water then has to be put in a boiler that has a powerful agitator. To get the best results, the water has to be

progressively heated in stages and different temperatures will make for optimum action by various enzymes.

It is also left to the discretion of the brewer as to the best composition of beer wort which he can achieve by choosing the stages with care. In any case, this stage of making beer should continue for about two hours.

After this stage of making beer has been completed, there is another stage that the beer has to go through which is the fermentation process, which requires that yeast be added to the wort that has been allowed to cool and then the fermentable sugars that had dissolved while the brewing stage was in progress will now get transformed into alcohol and also into carbon dioxide. It takes about a week for the fermentation stages of making beer to complete, and you can choose between two categories of beer that depend on which method of fermentation is used.

There are bottom-fermented yeast beers that need to be fermented at temperatures not higher than five to ten degrees Centigrade in which the yeast will sink to the bottom of the beer. On the other hand, the other stage is the top-fermented beers that need to be fermented at temperatures between fifteen and twenty-five degrees Centigrade in which the yeast will come up to the surface of the beer after fermentation.