AGRO 1001 Chapter : BEER
Document Summary
Beer is the world"s oldest and most widely consumed alcoholic beverage and the third most popular drink overall after water and tea. Almost all beer contains only four ingredients: barley, water, hops, and yeast. Different styles of beer are created by variations in the brewing process, which consists of four stages: production aka brewing, beer is produced by fermentation of sugar derived from starch-cased materials. Common: wheat, corn, rice are widely used also in conjunction with barley. Less common: millet, sorgum, cassava root, potato in brazil, and agave in mexico: the starch source is steeped in water along with naturally occurring enzymes to produce a sugary. Wort : the wort is then flavored with herbs, fruit, or hops, yeast is then used to cause fermentation, which produces alcohol and other waste products from anaerobic respiration of the sugars. Beer has flavoring: hops, most common in beer, adds bitterness, act as a natural preservative, herbs, fruit.
