A Historical and Current Perspective on Beer

A Historical and Current Perspective on Beer

There are three basic ingredients in beer: water, barley and hops, and the final product is the result of a complex and careful production process. The malt is passed through a transformation process where the hard and vitreous kernels of barley gr are crushed in the malting process (FitzGibbon 1976). This stage aims towards the extraction of malt and its useful parts. The extract is then forwarded to the fermenting process, where the yeast and extract are naturally fermented. Once the previous process is achieved, ground malt is mixed ...