On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com>wrote:
> > Yeast converts it to ethanol, however, and ethanol is still considered > a sugar if you are looking at it from a chemistry perspective. The > amount of residual sugars left over also varies significantly > depending on your beer style. Roughly speaking, the amount of sugars > pre-fermentation is related to the Original Gravity and the amount > left over at the end is related to the Terminal Gravity. > > An interesting historical anecdote on this subject. Bert Grant, one of > the founders of microbrewing in the US post-Prohibition, tried to put > nutritional information on his beers so that everyone could see how > many calories, how much sugar, etc. The BATF and FDA came down hard on > them and nipped it right in the bud because they said that nutritional > information amounted to a claim of health benefits on an alcoholic > product, which is strictly verboten. Grant tried to argue that people > should get to know what's in their beer but the government agencies > didn't want to hear anything about it. Alcohol is bad, m'kay and that > trumps the wisdom of letting people know what's in it in their minds. > For a college communications class, we had to give an informative speech...and I chose "How the brewing process works". Researching and delivering that speech was the most fun I had on an assignment in school. I got so into it, I had the process memorized by the time my speech came around, and was the only student to give his speech completely from memory :) I got an A. Good times. Beer...is there anything it can't do? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:330456 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
