Barrel beer

Beer refers to low-alcohol beverages that are produced by fermentation of malt wort. As a rule, barley malt is used to make beer, which is fermented with yeast, as well as hops. Beer has earned worldwide fame and popularity due to its taste, and in addition, consumer characteristics.

Currently, there are over a thousand diverse beers. It is also noteworthy that many world states produce their own authentic varieties of the drink. The largest percentage of beer consumption per capita was recorded in countries such as the Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, as well as Ireland, Poland, Finland and Russia.

Interestingly, beer ranks third in the world popularity of drinks after water, as well as tea. Researchers claim that the history of beer began in the Neolithic era. Just at that time, people began to grow crops. Moreover, there is a hypothesis that cereal people began to cultivate for only one purpose - to make a hoppy drink.

Beer was made by the ancient Sumerians, as well as Assyrians. In ancient China, beer was made from rice, and Celtic and Germanic tribes used rye grains, oats, as well as millet and barley for the drink. It is worth noting that beer has long enjoyed popularity in regions with severe climatic conditions. in which it was simply impossible to grow grapes and make wine.

Currently, there is no single classification of beer in the food industry. However, among the most basic and most common types of beer, the following can be distinguished:



rye beer;

rice beer;

corn beer;

hybrid beer;

root beer;

dark beer;

light beer;

bottom fermentation beer;

top fermentation beer (lager, ale, porter, wheat beer, stout);

live or unfiltered beer;

barrel beer.



It is noteworthy that a hundred years ago all beer belonged to barrel varieties. In our fast-moving age of high technology and the dominance of various synthetic food additives, barrel beer has become a rather rare guest on the tables of the inhabitants of our latitudes. Currently, beverage manufacturers prefer not barrel beer, but a product that has passed the filtration process, which is bottled or packaged in aluminum cans.

The current beer is significantly inferior in its taste, consumer and which is quite important to the useful qualities of the good old barrel beer. As a result of research, it was found that barrel beer can bring real benefits to the human body, of course in the case of drinking a drink in reasonable quantities. Barrel beer helps to control blood cholesterol levels and also helps to remove salts from the body.

In addition, barrel beer stimulates the production of gastric juice, which improves digestion. The chemical composition of barrel beer, as a rule, contains B vitamins, as well as such definitely useful compounds for the human body as phosphorus, calcium, manganese, copper, iron and potassium. It is worth noting that the beneficial properties of barrel beer are manifested only in the case of moderate consumption of the drink (no more than one liter per day).