Brewing and Winemaking Flashcards
First civilization to brew beer
chinese, 7000 BC
First to brew with barley
sumerians
First to regluate sales and consumption
Babylonians
First to have several beer styles
- Babylonians
- Used as payment
Beer associated with ______ in egypt
bakeries
Downfall of early beer
Greeks-wine
Gruit
- early beer
- unhopped
- used herbs
purity law
beer= water+malt+hops
Monks
brewed to support the abbey
Earliest brewing in US
pilgrims who didn’t want to import
Beers categorized based on
- IBUs (bitterness)
- %ABV
- SRM(color)
- SG(specific gravity, strength, dryness)
- Body
- Aroma, flavor
Define brewing
Breakdown and transformatino of a narrow range of macromolecules to build a wide spectrum of complex molecules
Basic steps
- Mashing
- Lautering
- Boiling
- Sanitizing
- Fermenting
- Cleaning
How is it a hostile environment for microbes
- low pH
- High sugar content initially
- high alcohol content at end
- antimicrobial compounds
- high pressure when bottled
Mashing
- Enzymatic conversion of starch and protein into carbs and/or amino acids
- Crushed malted grain mixed w/ warm-hot water
- Temperature dependent
Dark beers contain
kilned/roasted malts
breakdown of big sugars to small, fermentable ones
Saccharification
Lautering
washing sugary liquid off the mashed grain
Sugary liquid is called
wort
gravity
sugar concentration
Boiling
- Sterilization
- Hop utilization
Hops
- Alpha acid isomerization during boil
- Supply bitterness and preservation to beer
Fermenting
- Wort transformed into beer by yeast fermentation
- yeast transport maltose then maltaste hydrolyzes maltose into glucose
ale yeast
- Saccharomyces cerevistiae
- top-fermenting
- very diverse
- produce esters and phenols