What is beer?
Beer is often defined as an alcoholic drink made from water
and yeast-fermented malt, flavoured with hops. The beer brewed
in the Plevna brewery is made according to the German purity
law (Reinheitsgebot) of 1516. Our beer is totally free of additives,
and we only use the best of Finnish malted barley, German and
Czech hops, yeast, and pure water.
The brewing process at Plevna:
The actual brewing process is preceded by malting, during which
the starch of the barley grain is converted to a form suitable
for brewing. Barley grains are germinated, dried, and ground
into meal in a malt mill. The finished malt is then delivered
to the brewery.
In the brewery the malt is mashed: mixed with water and heated.
In the mashing process the insoluble starch of the malted barley
is broken down and converted into soluble maltose and other
sugars. The liquid produced is called wort. After mashing, the
wort is boiled for one hour, and hops - the ”soul”
of beer - are added. It is the flowers from the female hop plant
which impart the desired bitter flavour and the pleasant aroma.
Depending on the type of beer, the boiled wort is cooled down
to 10-20 degrees Celsius, after which the yeast is added. Yeast
converts the sugar, which was produced in the mashing process,
into alcohol.
In our brewery the fermentation takes approximately one week,
after which the beer is stored and matured at a low temperature.
Depending on the type of beer, this phase lasts from 2-4 weeks,
and the end result is then ready to be savoured by all our customers.
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Mashing/Boiling - Cooling |
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Fermentation
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