The Beer Brewing Guide: The EBC Quality Handbook for Small Breweries
  • Learn everything about brewing processes, maintenance and analysis
  • Technical, in-depth and yet accessible
  • Written in collaboration with the European Trade Association of Brewers, representing 29 countries and more than 10,000 breweries

This book is the ultimate guide for running a small brewery with an eye on improving and maintaining a high level of quality in day-to-day operations. It was written in cooperation with the European Trade Association of Brewers, representing 29 countries and more than 10,000 breweries. Detailed information is provided about raw materials, standard and alternative microorganisms encountered in the brewery, brewing processes, fermentation and maturation methods, packaging and dispensing, troubleshooting, analysis methods as well as barrel ageing and other processes common in and, in some cases, unique to smaller breweries. Though technical and in-depth, the information remains very accessible to readers of all levels of knowledge and experience. This book was written with professional brewers in mind who work in smaller facilities without access to extensive laboratory equipment or those who may be in the process of opening their own breweries. The text explores the techniques and background necessary for consistently brewing quality beer on a limited budget. All professional brewers, even advanced homebrewers, will find this book to be a helpful resource and an indispensable guide for expanding their knowledge base and improving their brewing skills.

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The Beer Brewing Guide: The EBC Quality Handbook for Small Breweries
  • Learn everything about brewing processes, maintenance and analysis
  • Technical, in-depth and yet accessible
  • Written in collaboration with the European Trade Association of Brewers, representing 29 countries and more than 10,000 breweries

This book is the ultimate guide for running a small brewery with an eye on improving and maintaining a high level of quality in day-to-day operations. It was written in cooperation with the European Trade Association of Brewers, representing 29 countries and more than 10,000 breweries. Detailed information is provided about raw materials, standard and alternative microorganisms encountered in the brewery, brewing processes, fermentation and maturation methods, packaging and dispensing, troubleshooting, analysis methods as well as barrel ageing and other processes common in and, in some cases, unique to smaller breweries. Though technical and in-depth, the information remains very accessible to readers of all levels of knowledge and experience. This book was written with professional brewers in mind who work in smaller facilities without access to extensive laboratory equipment or those who may be in the process of opening their own breweries. The text explores the techniques and background necessary for consistently brewing quality beer on a limited budget. All professional brewers, even advanced homebrewers, will find this book to be a helpful resource and an indispensable guide for expanding their knowledge base and improving their brewing skills.

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The Beer Brewing Guide: The EBC Quality Handbook for Small Breweries

The Beer Brewing Guide: The EBC Quality Handbook for Small Breweries

by Christopher McGreger, Nancy McGreger
The Beer Brewing Guide: The EBC Quality Handbook for Small Breweries

The Beer Brewing Guide: The EBC Quality Handbook for Small Breweries

by Christopher McGreger, Nancy McGreger

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Overview

  • Learn everything about brewing processes, maintenance and analysis
  • Technical, in-depth and yet accessible
  • Written in collaboration with the European Trade Association of Brewers, representing 29 countries and more than 10,000 breweries

This book is the ultimate guide for running a small brewery with an eye on improving and maintaining a high level of quality in day-to-day operations. It was written in cooperation with the European Trade Association of Brewers, representing 29 countries and more than 10,000 breweries. Detailed information is provided about raw materials, standard and alternative microorganisms encountered in the brewery, brewing processes, fermentation and maturation methods, packaging and dispensing, troubleshooting, analysis methods as well as barrel ageing and other processes common in and, in some cases, unique to smaller breweries. Though technical and in-depth, the information remains very accessible to readers of all levels of knowledge and experience. This book was written with professional brewers in mind who work in smaller facilities without access to extensive laboratory equipment or those who may be in the process of opening their own breweries. The text explores the techniques and background necessary for consistently brewing quality beer on a limited budget. All professional brewers, even advanced homebrewers, will find this book to be a helpful resource and an indispensable guide for expanding their knowledge base and improving their brewing skills.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789401479790
Publisher: Acc Publishing Group Ltd
Publication date: 10/15/2021
Pages: 400
Product dimensions: 7.23(w) x 10.16(h) x 1.37(d)

About the Author

The European Brewery Convention is the technical branch of the European trade association. The Brewers of Europe has been producing technical brewery books and analysis methods for nearly 70 years.

Table of Contents

Preface 15

Brewing in the pre-industrial age 15

Modern brewing 17

The Purpose and Scope of this Book 19

Who benefits from this book? 19

General Principles of Quality and Quality Control 20

What is quality? 20

Laying the Groundwork for Quality 23

Quality as a goal 23

The General Types of Brewery Quality Control 24

Microbiological quality control 24

Physico-chemical quality control 25

Sensory quality control 25

How to Use this Book 26

General Safety 29

Training and orientation 29

Standard Operating Procedures (SOPS) 35

What are SOPs? 35

Why are SOPs important? 36

How to write an SOP 36

Elements of an SOP 37

Traceability 38

What is traceability? 38

Why is traceability important and necessary? 38

Record keeping 39

Additional points 43

Overview: Challenges to Quality 47

Cleanliness and Hygienic Design 48

Practical hygiene for breweries 48

Fundamental principles 48

Stainless steel 49

Piping and valves 54

Cleaning and Sanitising 64

Clean-in-place (CIP) 64

Stages of cleaning a tank 75

Surface hygiene 77

Brewery Pumps 78

Selecting a pump 78

Raw Materials: Water 84

General information 84

Liquor versus process water 84

Water - properties, phases and dissolved solids 84

How to interpret a water analysis 89

Visual inspection and evaluation of raw water 99

Raw Materials: Barley Malt, Other Grains, Sugars 101

General information 101

Barley malt 104

Other malted grains 109

Unmalted grains 109

Sugars and other additives 110

Colouring agents 113

How to interpret a malt analysis 114

Visual inspection and evaluation of malt 122

Delivery and storage of malt 123

Raw Materials: Hops 126

General information 126

Essential information from suppliers on hops 132

Varietal information sheets 133

How to interpret a hop analysis 136

Visual inspection and evaluation of hops 139

Delivery and storage of hops 141

Raw Materials: Yeast and Other Microorganisms 144

General information 144

How to interpret a yeast data sheet 146

Visual inspection and evaluation of yeast 147

Sources, propagation and storage of yeast 149

Other microorganisms 157

The Brewing Process 163

Overview 163

The 'Hot Side' 164

Sizing a brewhouse 164

Milling 166

Mashing 174

Separation of the mash solids from the wort 198

Wort boiling 202

Brewhouse work and the bitterness of beer 204

Hot and cold break material 205

Hot break separation 206

The 'Cold Side' 213

Wort chilling and aeration 213

Yeast pitching 217

Fermentation 223

Stages of fermentation 225

Sulphurous compounds in beer 243

Fermentation, maturation and ageing in barrels 246

Clarification 255

Pasteurisation 261

Bright beer 263

Determining the canbonation level of beer 263

Brewery gases 267

Conditioning after packaging 269

Cellaring beer in bottles like wine 270

Carbon dioxide recovery systems 270

Nitrogen 271

Compressed air 272

Packaged Beer 273

Kegs 274

Bottles and cans 274

Filling and packaging 276

Oxygen uptake 278

Microbiology 279

Beer and Basic Food Safety 281

The inherent protective properties of beer 281

Traditional approaches 288

Assessing beer safety - examples 289

Improving flavour stability in production 290

Sensory Analysis 292

The human sensory apparatus 292

Assembling a panel 294

Selecting candidates 294

How to set up a tasting room 296

Conducting a tasting 297

Assessing beer 297

Sensory analysis in the brewery 298

Testing 301

Drinkability 303

The colour of wort and beer 310

Primary Challenges to Good Beer in Trade 318

Forced ageing of beer 319

Storage conditions 320

Beer ex works 322

How to pour beer correctly 328

How to handle glassware 331

Technical Appendices 334

Appendix 1 Equipping and setting up a laboratory 334

Appendix 2 Basic laboratory techniques 341

Appendix 3 Laboratory analyses for QC 347

Appendix 4 Physico-chemical analyses 348

Appendix 5 Brewing microbiology 359

Appendix 5-1 Microbiological sample collection in a small brewery 368

Appendix 5-2 Simple microbiological tests 370

Appendix 6 Archived samples of packaged beer for reference 394

Appendix 7 Common aromas and flavours in beer 396

Sources and Further Reading 405

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