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Beer enthusiasts across the world swear that the experience of enjoying a draft pint is better than from any can or bottle. Properly pouring a beer on tap is a critical skill for any bartender.The ...
Beer engine handles on a bar. A beer engine is a device for pumping beer from a cask, usually located in a pub's cellar.. The beer engine was invented by John Lofting, a Dutch inventor, merchant and manufacturer who moved from Amsterdam to London in about 1688 and patented a number of inventions including a fire hose and engine for extinguishing fires and a thimble knurling machine.
When beer is served directly from the cask ("by gravity"), as at beer festivals and some pubs, it simply flows out of the tap and into the glass. When the cask is stored in the cellar and served from the bar, as in most pubs, the beer line is screwed onto the tap and the beer is pulled through it by a beer engine. The taps used are the same ...
Brewing equipment is the vessels and tools used to brew beer, which usually includes systems of saccharification, fermentation, refrigeration and clean-in-place. [2] Archaeologists [3] uncovered ancient beer brewing equipment in an underground room built between 3400 and 2900 BC [4] in China.
Lots of different residue can build up in beer tap systems, contaminating your beer. Here's how to can tell if your tap beer is dirty or not.
Various beer barrels with wooden spiles (round knobs on cask) in addition to beer taps. A spile (sometimes called a "cask peg") is a wooden or metal peg used to control the flow of air into, and carbon dioxide out of, a cask of ale or wine. [1] [2] Spiles can also be used to broach liquids (like maple syrup) from a tree. [3]
The dropping process has two primary effects on the beer being fermented: the trub that has settled during the first period of fermentation will be left behind, leaving a cleaner beer and a cleaner yeast to crop from the beer for the next fermentation; the second effect is the aeration of the wort, which results in healthy clean yeast growth ...
The bottle then enters a "filler" which fills the bottle with beer and may also inject a small amount of inert gas (usually carbon dioxide or nitrogen) on top of the beer to disperse the oxygen, as oxygen can ruin the quality of the product via oxidation. Finally, the bottles go through a "capper", which applies a bottle cap, sealing the bottle.