Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Brewing and Distilling

Bachelor's
Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: engineering and engineering trades
Qualification: BSc
Kind of studies: full-time studies
Bachelor of Science (BSc)
University website: www.hw.ac.uk
Brewing
Brewing is the production of beer by steeping a starch source (commonly cereal grains, the most popular of which is barley) in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast. It may be done in a brewery by a commercial brewer, at home by a homebrewer, or by a variety of traditional methods such as communally by the indigenous peoples in Brazil when making cauim. Brewing has taken place since around the 6th millennium BC, and archaeological evidence suggests that emerging civilizations including ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia brewed beer. Since the nineteenth century the brewing industry has been part of most western economies.
Brewing
Much good beer has doubtless been made from very inferior malt, also vast quantities of so-called good beer are made by men who never even saw a proper mash; but neither of these facts can upset or affect the assertion that it is necessary to pay strict and careful attention to the drying of malt to produce a wort of uniform quality and absolute soundness. By careful working, inferior barley can be made into fairly sound and useful malt. By the employment of considerable skill... a brewer can make very good beer from indifferent malt, but his efforts, if carried back to the malt-house, are much more certain and reliable in their effects.
No brewer needs to be told how much easier is his work, and more certain in its results, if he has malt well made and soundly dried.
Henry Stopes, Malt and Malting, an Historical, Scientific, and Practical Treatise (1885) p. 361.
Brewing
The trouble with being descended from a brewer, no matter how long ago he brewered, or whatever you call it, you're supposed to know all about something you don't give a hoot about.
Charles Pike in the film The Lady Eve (1941), interpreted by Henry Fonda and written by Preston Sturges.
Brewing
The brewer, who does not untie his belt in warm weather, whose hands do not dry the clay.
Debate between Silver and Copper (middle to late 3rd millennium BCE). [1]
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