How's beer prepared?!
How's beer prepared?
Answers:
Absolutely, but unlike wines where the first step in the manufacture is fermentation, in beer the first step is to break down starch into suitable sugars by starch splitting enzymes obtained from other sources, as grains from which beer is prepared are sources of starch, and yeast can only ferment sugars, not starch.The sources are:barley, rice and maize.Fermentation proceeds slowly and is the second step.The characteristic bitter flavor is produced by the addition of flower buds of the hop plant(Humulus lupulus).Commercial production of beer takes about 8 days to ferment and six weeks to mature.