Hello again, thank you for joining me on the miraculous journey from grain to glass. So far we have crushed the grain, prepared the water, mashed the grist and, after working with nature for about two hours, produced a sweet wort. A soft sweet nectar of different barley malt sugars. When we add the hops this becomes a bitter wort.
If you read my last articles you now know that beer is brewed from grain, predominantly barley, and that fresh water is in fact very old. In the brewhouse we mix the two together to create what brewers call the ‘mash’.
You never realize how much crap you have accumulated over the years until you move house and are forced to explore the darker regions of the garage. Sometimes, those very special sometimes, you discover a forgotten treasure.
Today we are officially starting the South African Beer Culture and every day hence is Beer Culture day! We have to move with great determination because globally we’ve been left behind. First of all, what is a Beer Culture? It is a constant celebration of life and bringing back the tradition and the magic of beer in all its glorious styles.
