Production of beer using sorghum and sorghum malt

摘要

Beer is an alcoholic beverage obtained from the fermentation of sugars, mainly those obtained from barley malt. Current beer elaboration techniques include the addition of starch from rice and corn to increase the amount of fermentable sugars in the wort. For many years commercial breweries have experimented making beer from grains other than barley, among which we can find wheat, corn, and rice. However, the use of sorghum (Sorghum vulgare) for beer elaboration in an industrial plant was launched only three years ago in the US. In this study, sorghum and sorghum malt were used as ingredients for beer production.