Beer is one of the oldest and most widely consumed alcoholic drinks in the world. It is also the third most popular drink overall after water and tea. Beer is brewed from cereal grains—most commonly from malted barley, though wheat, maize (corn), and rice are also used.
The basic idea is to extract the sugars from grains (mostly barley) so that the yeast can turn it into alcohol and CO2, creating beer. The brewing process starts with grains, mostly barley and sometimes wheat, rye or other such things.
In the vast sense, beer is any alcoholic beverage made by the fermentation of grain, just as wine is any alcoholic beverage made by the fermentation of fruit. Majority of the world’s beers, the grain base is barley
The method of making beer includes 5 processes.
- Malting
- Mashing
- Boiling
- Fermentation
- Bottling and aging.
Malting involves harvesting of grains. Heating and drying the grains and finally cracking them. Malting isolate the enzymes needed for brewing.
Mashing involves steeping cracked grains in hot water for about an hour. This process activates the enzymes and results in release of sugar in form of wort. Wort is a sticky sweet liquid.
Boiling invloves heating wort to boiling temperature for an hour and adding hops and spices. Hop is a bitter fruit of vine plant. It shaped like cone and is green in color. It balances the sweetness of wort and also act like a preservative.
Fermentation involves adding yeast to the cooled, strained and filtered wort. After the brewing ends and adding yeast, beer is stored for weeks according to the temperature maintained the storage room. During this process, yeast combines with sugar and release CO2 and at last we get flat beer.
Bottling and Aging involves packing the flat beer in bottles and its either carbonated artificially or store to age with CO2 to get carbonated naturally.
One of the mostly consumed drink involves lots of process and efforts before it reach you.
Craft beers is a specific type of beer with more focus on a specific flavor palate that varies with the batch. Craft beer is made with very specific, specificly hand selected ingredients, and is only produced in small batches to people who are spefic about their beer, by master brewers who truly love beer.
Melvin Brewing is a craft brewery, based in Alpine, Wyoming. Melvin operates a 30-BBL brew house housed 20,000 square foot facility, where it kegs and packages highest-quality craft beer for key Pacific Northwest and Mountain States market. At Melvin Brewing they serve one of the best craft beer ever.
Craft beer from Melvin Brewing have better taste and more alcohol in it. They provides a vast variety of craft beer and at Melvin Brewing you can get beer for every season.
Craft beer also offers some important health benefits as it contains antioxidants, protein, and vitamin B complex. So, if you are drinking craft beer in moderation, you can provide these benefits because in craft beer the quality of ingredients used to brew it is very high.
So dont miss to visit Melvin Brewing, If you are in or around Alpine, as they serve finest craft beer in the locality.
