Malt extract, beer production

Details for a manufacture of 10 ton/week are given. It was pointed out that the reaction is reversible and that an enzymatic synthesis of fat from glycerol and fatty acid was described by Welter in 1911 (Ullmann, 1914). For the chill-proofing of beer proteolytic enzymes have been used successfully since 1911 in the USA (Tauber, 1949). Lintner, as early as 1890, observed that wheat diastase interacts in dough making. This effect was extensively studied, the addition of malt extract came into practice, and American bakers in 1922 used 30 million pounds of malt extract valued 2.5 million dollars (Tauber, 1949). The production of pectinases began around 1930 for use in the fruit industiy (Schweizerische Ferment, now part of Novo Nordisk). 

Amino acid specific Maillard products were isolated from the extracts by preparative GC or HPLC and identified by MS-, IR-, 1 H- and c-NMR-spectroscopy. Proline derived components are important constituents in bread, malt and beer. More than 120 proline specific Maillard products were characterized. Cysteine and methionine derived components were predominant in roasted coffee and meat flavors. Thirty cysteine- and twenty methionine-specific Maillard products were identified for the first time. 

For setting calcium content of drinking water intended for production of beer and malt extract... 

Hops or hops-derived products are usually boiled for 0.5 to 2.5 hours with wort. Wort is an aqueous solution of fermentable sugars (glucose, maltose, maltotriose) obtained by enzymatic hydrolysis of starch derived from malt extraction or from other sources (wheat, maize, rice). The hop boiling takes place in copper or stainless steel tanks and aims to precipitate wort proteins, to sterilize the wort, to remove volatile off-odours by steam distillation and most importantly, to transform the alpha acids into beer-soluble and bitter iso-alpha acids. 

Brewers dried grains are the dried extracted residue of barley malt alone or in mixture with other cereal grain or grain products resulting from the manufacture of wort or beer and may contain pulverized dried spent hops in an amount not to exceed 3% evenly distributed IFN 5-00-516 Barley brewers grains dehydrated. 

This industry is engaged primarily in the manufacture of malt, malt beverages (ale, beer, and malt liquors), wines (table wine, dessert wine, and brandy), distilled spirits, bottled and canned soft drinks, and flavoring extracts and syrups. These products can be classified under two major groups according to their basic manufacturing processes as ... 

Beer is defined as the beverage prepared by the yeast fermentation of an aqueous extract of malted or unmalted cereals or both, cereal products or other sources of carbohydrates and hops or preparations from hops (National Health and Medical Research Council, 1987). The process is depicted in Figure 9.3. 

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