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What Gives Beer its Bitterness & Flavour?

08-Jul-2016

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What Gives Beer its Bitterness & Flavour?

There are few things better than an ice cold beer on a hot day. Chances are, when you crack open a beer this summer, you probably won’t be thinking much about chemistry – but it’s the particular chemicals in beer, produced in the brewing process, that give beer both its bitterness and flavour. It’s a real chemical team effort, with several important chemical families, each contributing something different but vital to the eventual taste of the beer.

Topics
  • acids
  • beer
  • esters
  • boiling process
  • ethyl acetate
  • beta acids
  • alpha acids
  • hops
  • humulone
  • cohumulone
  • adhumulone
  • posthumulone
  • prehumulone
  • lupulone
  • colupulone
  • adlupulone
  • yeasts
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