Sun Mar 28, 2010 5:07 pm
> Sucrose "as a disaccharide is not fully fermentable" Wrong! it is fully fermentable. Yeast have the enzyme Invertase to break down sucrose. In fact, it is THE FIRST sugar they actually eat in the wort, glucose, fructose and maltose notwithstanding. They eat sucrose first, then the glucose, fructose and then maltose.
>the powerpoint is using the words nitrogenous, proteinacious, etc.
> Nitrogen IS protein in the brewing science world. It is small proteins (peptides) and amino acids. The reason it is labled nitrogen or nitrogenous is that that is how it is determined chemically in the lab. They test for nitrogen (or used to), knowing that protein is most nitrogen and carbon chains. Nowadays they can use other methods like electrophoresis to measure various protein species directly.
> cereal mashing is a combination of enzymes and higher temperature.
Professional breweries developed cereal mashing as a more efficient means of getting the higher gelatiniation temperature adjuncts (corn and especially rice) to solubilize sooner and with less energy than boiling alone. Think about the scale and the amount of energy necessary to actually boil 5 barrels of rice.
Cereal mashing uses a proportion of malt (20-25%) to provide enzymes to help break open the endosperm of the adjuncts and hydrolyze the starches without the necessity of bring the whole mash to a boil.
Bottom Line: Cereal mashing (heat plus enzymes) is a more efficient way to solubilize the starches than heat alone on a large scale.
SEE “How To Brewâ€, page 144 for Gel Temps for the various grains, and page 173 for Cereal mashing
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