Yeast Requirements During FermentationYeast needs certain things in order to do their job. They need sugars, amino acids, fatty chemicals called lipids, and minute amounts of minerals such as zinc and copper. Fortunately, these are already in most beer worts and it isn’t necessary to add extra nutri

Wort concentration generally refers to the proportion of wort formed by the malt (the term wort in beer) after the sugar process. Generally, the specific gravity of water is recorded as 1.000, if the malt in wort is enzymatically hydrolyzed to produce a lot of maltose or some other fermentable sugar

Many bottled beers and wines have been filtered at some stage with diatomaceous earth to remove solids and other contaminants. For both beverages, impurities need to be filtered down to the micron to prevent a hazy, unappealing look and taste. Today, we’re going to look at how diatomaceous earth is