Sometimes it is useful to know how your everyday devices work. At least roughly. It’s good to know how your gear-shift moves the gear wheels to achieve the right rpm, what force keeps airplanes in the sky, not allowing them to fall down like a rock, and it’s also good to know how your favorite drink is made. Roughly.
You might have already guessed it, but we’re going to tell you about the making of beer.
How traditional breweries brew beer for centuries:
Monks boil the malt for some time in order to let sugar and starch excrete. They try to retain enough self-control not to drink all of it before it even becomes beer, because in this phase the drink smells good, and actually tastes sweet because of all the sugar boiled right out of the malt.
After saying ten hail mary’s for their sins of nevertheless drinking it, they continue with adding the hop. The hop is responsible for beer’s bitterness and flavor. Bad news for those poor monks, once again, the wort tastes excellent in this phase too, it’s just not beer. Beer on its way becoming beer.
The next thing to do is to ferment the wort. This is where sugar transforms into alcohol. Basically beer tastes good from the moment it’s started to be boiled until the moment it’s called ready and is quietly smiling at you from a bottle. Also, carbon dioxide is a side effect of sugar becoming alcohol. At the first part of the fermentation carbon dioxide is being let out, and in the second phase - when beer is put in bottles - it’s being held in by the bottle, therefore your beer will have small tickling bubbles. If anything is left from it, now’s the time to drink the rest.
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