The four big beer ingredients are Water, Grains, Hops, and Yeast. Beer is up to 97% water. Brewing water is a very important procedure because of the chemical process involved of the mineral content of brewing water is an important brewing process. For example in the sources ‘’What Is Beer?’’. It explains that ‘’Today 's brewers treat their brewing water to get the specific mineral profile they desire for …show more content…
On the milling process is crushing the malt and that causes the grains to break apart leaving the starchy balls in exposure making it accessible to the brewer. In the second step mashing extracts fermentable sugars from the grain. The third step is lautering in which the fermentable sugars are rinsed from the grains. When sugary liquor from the mash slowly drained from the bottom. The fourth step is boiling in which the kettle is then pumped and where it 's boiled. The boil is concentrated for a vigorous boil at a constant time for sixty minutes or more. After is concentrated to the proper sugar. The fifth step is cooling in which the wort is then pumped through a heat exchanger to cool as quickly as possible to the fermentation process. The faster the cooling the less danger in it being contaminated from