What You Need to Know
A brewery or brewing company is a business that makes and sells beer. The place at which beer is commercially made is either called a brewery or a beerhouse, where distinct sets of brewing equipment are called plant. The commercial brewing of beer has taken place since at least 2500 BC; in ancient Mesopotamia, brewers derived social sanction and divine protection from the goddess Ninkasi. Brewing was initially a cottage industry, with production taking place at home; by the ninth century, monasteries and farms would produce beer on a larger scale, selling the excess; and by the eleventh and twelfth centuries larger, dedicated breweries with eight to ten workers were being built.
Key Parameters
Temperature
20°C
15°C - 25°C
Time
10 days
7 days - 14 days
Equipment
Steps
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German Hefeweizen (Germany): Wheat beer with distinctive banana-clove aroma from specific yeast strains
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Belgian Lambic (Belgium): Spontaneously fermented beer using wild yeast and bacteria
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British Porter (England): Dark beer style showcasing roasted malt flavors through controlled fermentation