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Why use hops?
1. To import bitterness taste
2. To improve mouth-feel
3. To reduce wort surface tension
3. To prevent over-boiling on Wort …
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Brewing Hops, Why Use Hops?
May 18, 2012 # 11:27 PM # Raw Materials # No Comment
Brewing Yeast Nutritional Requirements
May 17, 2012 # 9:28 PM # Brewing Chemistry # No Comment
The brewing yeast will be growth successfully and good vitality if adequate supply of nutrients, fermentable sugar, amino acid, vitamins …
Traditional and Modern Wort Chiller
May 17, 2012 # 6:41 PM # Wort Production # No Comment
Traditional Wort Chiller
In the past open cooling system “washboard” used for cool down hot wort. But there are so many …
Removal of Cold Break, Why?
May 17, 2012 # 12:08 AM # Brewhouse # No Comment
Cold break is denatured protein in boiled wort coagulates and falls out of solution. This happens during the rapid wort …
Cleaning Detergents Used in Brewing Industry
May 16, 2012 # 9:51 PM # Cleaning and Desinfection # No Comment
1. Caustic
Caustic (Sodium hydroxide : NaOH) is a metallic base predominantly ionic, containing sodium cations and hydroxide anions. It is …
CIP (Clean-in-Place) the most critical aspects of brewing
May 16, 2012 # 9:02 PM # Cleaning and Desinfection # No Comment
What is CIP?
CIP (Clean-in-Place) is a means by process equipment, machines, vessels, associated fittings and associated pipe work can be …
Volatiles and Coloring Compounds Formation in Worth and Beer.
May 16, 2012 # 6:38 PM # Brewing Chemistry # No Comment
1. Dimethyl Sulphide (DMS)
DMS is a volatide compound and evaporated with the vapor during wort boiling, however additional DMS can …
Minimized wort oxidation in Lauter Tun and Mash Filter
May 16, 2012 # 5:52 PM # Brewhouse # No Comment
What is Wort Oxidation?
Oxidation is defined as the interaction between oxygen molecules and all the different substances they may contact. …
What is Mash Filter and How it Work?
May 16, 2012 # 5:11 AM # Brewhouse # No Comment
Mash filter is very much like plate and frame filter. The traditional mash filter is made of cast iron which …
Decanter Centrifuges
May 14, 2012 # 5:37 AM # Brewhouse # No Comment
What is decanter?
Decanter is a horizontally arranged vessel that is used to hold the decantation of a liquid which may …
The Important of Wort Boiling
May 11, 2012 # 10:33 PM # Brewhouse # No Comment
Wort boiling is the part of the beer brewing process. Here, the wort is boiled together with hops and possibly …
Insufficient Saccharification
May 7, 2012 # 8:49 PM # Brewing Chemistry # No Comment
Saccharification is meant the hydrolysis of amylose and amylopectin to form simple sugars such as glucose, maltose and maltotriose. The …
What is Starch Degradation?
May 7, 2012 # 12:35 AM # Brewing Chemistry # No Comment
Starch degradation is the most important brewing process. Because of it convert the starch to fermentable sugars. Starch must be …
What is Spent Grain? How to do with your spent grain?
May 2, 2012 # 6:26 AM # Brewhouse # No Comment
What is spent grain?
Spent Grain is a byproduct from brewing process. The chemical composition of wet spent grains is given …
What are enzymes?
April 7, 2012 # 6:20 PM # Brewing Chemistry # No Comment
Enzymes are in general globular proteins and range from just 62 amino acid residues in size. Enzymes are proteins that …
Estery Flavor
April 5, 2012 # 11:03 PM # Brewing Chemistry # No Comment
There are many flavors that contribute to the overall character of a beer. Some of these flavors have been previously …
Is beer fattening ?
April 4, 2012 # 7:39 AM # Beer and Health # No Comment
Drinking beer has become synonymous with a beer belly; but is beer really fattening? less fattening than wine?
Beer is not …
Calculation Blood Alcohol Concentration
March 31, 2012 # 12:08 AM # Beer and Health # No Comment
Calculation of alcohol blood concentration
The formula:
C = A / (p x r)
C: The concentration in %
A: the alcohol intake in …
Top 10 reasons for yeast autolysis
March 29, 2012 # 9:41 PM # Biological Control # No Comment
Autolysis is break-up of yeast cell “on its own”. Deficiency of nutrients, high temperature and alkaline condition enhance autolysis. If …
Chemical gross composition of yeast cell
March 29, 2012 # 8:57 PM # Raw Materials # No Comment
Yeast is a single celled fungus 10 – 20 times bigger than bacteria. Yeast cell is only living organism that …
