Why pasturize beer?!
Beer is alcoholic!. Shouldn't the alcohol content make that pointless!? It's like soap!.!.!.!.self-cleanseing, right!?Www@FoodAQ@Com
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Beer is pasteurized for other reasons!. The CO2 and hops are natural stabilizers, and depending on the packaging, that also plays a part in protecting beer!. Cans are 100% UV negating, by their nature!.
Breweries that pasteurize generally are trying to achieve 2 things: kill all microbilogical elements that might have been in the bottle or cap prior to filling, or maybe in a beer line in the brewery!. Yeast has a tendency to find very small areas to grow!. These elements are destroyed with pasteurizing!.
Secondly, the beer is being protected from too much oxygen!. Oxygen (O2) is the key nemesis of beer!. It makes it age prematurely and give oxidized beer tastes stale and is browner than nornal!.
Most microbreweries do no pasteurize, as many a brewer believ that the taste is changed when heated after fermenting!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Breweries that pasteurize generally are trying to achieve 2 things: kill all microbilogical elements that might have been in the bottle or cap prior to filling, or maybe in a beer line in the brewery!. Yeast has a tendency to find very small areas to grow!. These elements are destroyed with pasteurizing!.
Secondly, the beer is being protected from too much oxygen!. Oxygen (O2) is the key nemesis of beer!. It makes it age prematurely and give oxidized beer tastes stale and is browner than nornal!.
Most microbreweries do no pasteurize, as many a brewer believ that the taste is changed when heated after fermenting!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
You need to have a a liquor like alcohol content before it is self cleaning!. Beer and wine can turn to vinegar if the right or wrong bacteria get to them!.
Only large breweries pasteurise beer!. They have a lot to lose if a batch goes bad so they want to take any steps necessary to prevent it!. It is possible to make beer without it but the risk of spoilage is higher!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Only large breweries pasteurise beer!. They have a lot to lose if a batch goes bad so they want to take any steps necessary to prevent it!. It is possible to make beer without it but the risk of spoilage is higher!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
The alcohol content in beer isn't high enough to prevent the growth of spoilage bacteria!. This was the reason that beer contains hops, they were originally added to prevent spoilage!. Pasteurization became standard in the early 20th century to make it possible to ship beer nationwide!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
It kills the fermenting yeasts before bottleing!. The beer making process is naturally pasturising since barley must be heated in water prior to fermentation!. Sometimes the water is pasturised before the barley is added, that must be it!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I don't think the alcohol level is high enough to not pasteurize!.
Besides, companies are now starting to pasteurize everything!.( covering their butts)!.
To many lawsuits etc etc!.Even unpasteurized cheeses are becoming extinct (:-Www@FoodAQ@Com
Besides, companies are now starting to pasteurize everything!.( covering their butts)!.
To many lawsuits etc etc!.Even unpasteurized cheeses are becoming extinct (:-Www@FoodAQ@Com
All bottled beers are pasteurized unless mentioned!.
It keeps shelf life longer!.
The only non-pasteurized beer (and not much more) are kegs of draught beer!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
It keeps shelf life longer!.
The only non-pasteurized beer (and not much more) are kegs of draught beer!.Www@FoodAQ@Com