Ingredients: Yeast
YEAST Yeast is essential for brewing beer because it initiates and helps fermentation during which the malt sugar is split into 3 parts: alcohol, carbon dioxide and energy. Without yeast – no alcohol! There are two main types of yeast: top-fermenting and bottom-fermenting. Top-fermenting yeast means that the yeast, during the process of fermentation, goes … Continue reading
Ingredients: Hops
HOPS To give you some basic information about hops: it is part of the family of the cannabis plant (which explains a lot of pub-behaviour); it grows up to 7 metres in height, and it is a dioecious plant which means that it has male and female umbels. For brewing beer one only uses the … Continue reading
Ingredients: Malt
MALT The second ingredient we need for brewing is malt. Depending on whether you want to brew according to the Bavarian Purity Law from 1516 or not you have a choice of different cereals to use. The most popular is barley (most lagers are barley-based). The process of turning barley into malt is rather longish … Continue reading
Ingredients: Water
If you think that the process of brewing beer is simple enough for you and you are confident that you can brew your own beer in the cellar there is still one last but very important thing to consider: ingredients! To brew beer one needs three main ingredients and one catalyst: water, malt, hops and … Continue reading
How to brew beer
No matter what kind of beer you want to brew, from Lager to Ale or Stout, the process is always the same with only few minor adjustments. What changes are usually the ingredients or the time of secondary fermentation. The malt is taken from the malt store and put into the malt mill where the … Continue reading
pigeons and the contraceptive pill
Shortly after arriving in London I went on a guided walking tour through the city. Our guide provided us with a lot of interesting and also funny information about the city, in particular Trafalgar Square. I am not entirely sure about the accuracy of the information and perhaps it is just an urban myth but … Continue reading
mice and biros
Mice have a relatively soft skeleton. This and their slender bodies allow them to squeeze through holes as little as 6mm, the diameter of an average biro. In addition they nibble their ways through pretty much anything, from lead to plastic to concrete and are capable of jumping up to 46 cm. To cut a … Continue reading
“BEER”
in this category I am going to talk about anything connected to beer, from how it’s being brewed to the importance of good ingredients to underage drinking
“Random” what’s it about?
Everything that does not fit with the other two categories will be published here, such as stuff from the news, pictures or university related things
“Trivia and fun facts” what’s it about?
I am a big fan of trivia and unnecessary facts and stories so I will dedicate this part of my blog to those little pieces of information everybody can well live without, just for the fun of it =o)
BEER and other essentials 