The Continuous Brewing of Beer

Brewing has been mentioned in history as early as Egyptian times and has continued on to the present day with relatively few changes to the basic recipe. Malted barley is the main ingredient, which, when milled and heated in water to extract its nutrients, provides a nourishing sugarand protein-rich solution named wort (pronounced wert), an ideal medium in which yeast may grow and ferment. In comparatively recent times hops were added to the boiling wort as it was discovered that hops had anti-bacterial properties which preserved the wort and fermented beer and which gave the beer a refreshing bitter taste.