Beer, Ancient Beginnings, and Brewing Basics
Romain Levesque

Defined Tag: Beer Making Equipment.
When you sit down to throw back a cold one on a Friday night after a long hard week, you rarely wonder "how did beer get its start?" Well, since you're not out partying with the gang right now you may have some interest. It is likely the oldest human made beverage known to civilization. Experts estimate that the beverage we know and love got its start around 6,000 BCE. The Sumerian's deemed it important enough to include in their historical accounts. Egypt and Mesopotamia also have records that make references to the beloved beverage. Experts have stumbled across the chemical remains of it dating to 3500-3100 BCE.

Beer is created by fermenting sugars that are inside starch type grains such as: corn, malted barley (the most widely used), rice, and wheat. More rare forms of starch that may be used are agave (Mexico), cassava (African), millet, potatoes (Brazil), and sorghum. Starch is immersed in water with enzymes that will create a sugar wort. The wort is seasoned with fruit, herbs, or hops (most popular). Next, yeast is mixed in to catalyze the fermentation process.

The kinds of yeast used are responsible for creating kinds of beer such ale, automatically fermented, and lager. It is manufactured through a brewing process. There are five steps that go into manufacturing it: mashing, sparging, boiling, fermentation, and packaging. To get ferment able sugars a mash of a starch and water. The mix is heated at least once and sometimes multiple times.
Enzymes are combined with the mash every time the temperature is heightened. The kind of starch determines how many times the mash is heated. Sparging takes the wort from the mash mixture. During this step as much ferment able liquid that can be gathered is taken from the mash. Boiling takes the microbes out of the wort and heightens the amount of sugar. Hops is added at this step to counteract bitterness. During fermentation, yeast is put in to develop the wort sugars into carbon dioxide and alcohol. This is where the wort actually turns into the actual drink. It is carbonated during the packaging process. It's a process worth the wait-cheers!  

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