Análise e produção de cerveja artesanal do tipo IPA (India Pale Ale)

Abstract

Craft beer is defined as a drink obtained by the alcoholic fermentation of the beer must from barley malt and drinking water, by the action of yeast, with the addition of hops composed of four ingredients: water, malt, hops and yeast. The a change in the profile of beer production, which has records of its manufacture and consumption among Egyptian peoples, Babylonians, Sumerians, Mesopotamians, Greeks and Romans from 6000 to .C. and in the last forty was with the production and marketing concentrated in the hands of large companies. Today, the consumer is interested in understanding the production process and even producing their own beer. In Brazil, the most produced and consumed craft beer is IPA (India Pale Ale), an Ale-type craft beer characterized by high levels of alcohol, bitterness and aroma characteristic of hops, a female conical flower of a dioedic climbing plant. The present study aimed to produce, compare and evaluate the craft beer type India Pale Ale through the physicochemical analyses through the parameters pH, Initial density, Final density, Alcohol content and Bitterness.