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Speaker: Beer as you may know is made from four basic ingredients. Barley malt, hops, water and yeast and what we have in front of us over here, are some examples of the type of barley malt that we use. Here at the brewery, we brew using the actual grains and the character of the beer, the flavor of the beer, the taste of the beer is impacted a lot by the types of grains that we use in the beer.
We have here, in front of us different types of grains that we use for different styles of beer that we make. For example, we have roasted barley, which is used for our stout and roasted barley is what gives stout it's color and it's very distinctive flavor and texture, that many associate with the flavor of a good cup of coffee because the process for roasting barley is similar to the process for roasting coffee beans.
We have wheat, which is used for our wheat beer and which makes up most of the grain that we use in our wheat beer or substantial portion of the grain that we are using in our wheat beer and that gives wheat in general, a very distinctive flavor. We have a different type of grain, our Pale Ale Malt, which is our base grain. That's the malted barley from which we get most of the sugar that is used in for the fermentation of the yeast, will then ferment into beer. Next to that we have a Acidulated Malt, which is also a specialty type of malt that we add to some of our beers to produce some slight sourness, that we like to use to balance some of the sweetness in the beer and all the way here on the left, we have actually not grained at all but actually something called hops, which is also one of the critical ingredients to be used in beer. Hops are basically flowers that are picked off of a vine, they are harvested once a year and inside the flower itself are little capsules that contain the acids that produce the very familiar bitterness in beer that all beers have in one degree or another in order to balance the malted sweetness of beer in general.
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