How To Make Beer

Wondering how to make beer? You need just 4 natural ingredients: water, malted grain (usually barley or wheat), hops and yeast. The process starts when the brewer mixes a measured amount of crushed grain with a measured amount of water heated to a specific temperature to make a solution known as a mash. The heated water activates enzymes in the grain. The enzymes act on the starch in the grain and convert it to sugar. After a complete starch conversion (which can take up to an hour), the brewer is ready to draw off the sugar-laded liquid from the mash. Known as wort, this liquid can be dark or light in color, depending on the type of malt used. Since a lot of sugar can cling to the grain even after drawing off the wort, the brewer rinses the grain with more warm water to remove any remaining sugar in a process called sparging. Sparging can take an hour or more.

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