Live beer is not only very tasty, but also brings certain benefits to the body, if consumed in moderation. It is rich in minerals and vitamins.
But finding a real live drink, such as, for example, Maikop beer, is not easy. It is worth remembering that the inscription "live" on the label does not always correspond to reality. Be sure to pay attention to the shelf life. A real live drink is not stored for more than a month.
Why is there little beer on store shelves?
Most breweries artificially accelerate the fermentation process. Namely, this leads to the fact that nothing useful remains in the foamy drink. In order for beer to remain truly healthy, it must ferment for at least twenty-one days. This time is necessary for malt and hops to fully combine with live brewer's yeast.
Of course, for large companies that work for quantity, not quality, a period of three weeks is unacceptably long. Therefore, they go to the trick and instead of high-quality raw materials they use hop products and malt concentrate. To get beer from these components, only two days are enough.
Why do most consumers buy such a drink? Everything is very simple: low price, long shelf life, unusual packaging, advertising on each channel.
Another small detail that greatly changes the taste of beer - to extend the shelf life, the drink usually goes through filtration and pasteurization.
What is pasteurization and filtering?
What makes a foamy drink a perishable product? Brewer's yeast. By filtration, they are removed from the drink. This procedure practically does not affect the taste, but most of the useful elements disappear from beer irrevocably. And the shelf life is extended by three to four times.
But pasteurization already negatively affects the taste and aroma. During pasteurization, the beer is heated, which completely removes all the remains of brewer's yeast, and with them the crumbs of useful substances that remained after filtration. In pasteurized beer, the shelf life is extended to a year. True, after such processing, the drink not only loses its beneficial properties, but also becomes harmful.
At production of "Maikop" beer only natural components are used. It contains only natural hops, barley malt and clear glacial water. It is by no means subjected to pasteurization.
What is beer?
This drink can be safely called ancient. It is made from barley and malt and has a low alcohol content. When a good beer is poured into a glass, it foams easily and this foam holds long enough on the surface. It should have a pleasant, refreshing bitterness and a soft, hoppy aroma.
Despite the low alcohol content, in many countries it is beer that is a direct competitor to strong alcoholic products.
Maykopskoe Pivo LLC produces exclusively high-quality products. Beer from this manufacturer is very refreshing in hot weather, and thanks to the low alcohol content it perfectly tones. A foamy drink increases appetite, improves metabolism and increases the digestibility of food.
A bit of history
Beer is one of the oldest drinks. There is evidence that already 7 thousand years BC. e. Babylonians knew how to make a foamy drink. Moreover, already in those days there were about 16 varieties of amber drink. The art of brewing was so developed that the content of the extract and the cost of beer were prescribed in law.
At first, beer was slowly migrated from Egypt to North African countries, and from there it was already south to the Ethiopians. It is worth noting that it was the Ethiopians who preserved the ancient Egyptian recipe and to this day use it in the manufacture of beer.
From Ethiopia, beer fell into the Caucasus.
Beer production technology
To make a natural drink, you need a lot of time - from one to two months. At the first stage, malt and barley are obtained, then the wort is prepared, then it is fermented, aged and only after that it undergoes the last treatment and is bottled.
To get malt for “Maykop” beer, barley is cleaned and sorted, then soaked and germinated, dried raw and cleaned of sprouts (it contains a lot of bitterness in them, so they should not be allowed to get into the mash).
The light shade of the drink depends on the mode in which the malt is dried.
Most often, beer is made using light malt, which is obtained after drying the sprouted barley for 16 hours.
Main stages
After drying, the malt is also crushed. This is one of the most important processes, since it depends on it how the biochemical transformations will proceed, and therefore on how the beer will turn out.
Next is the process of mashing the malt. It is here that beer wort already appears after the malt dissolves in water.
The next step is filtering. During this process, the wort is separated from the grains. It takes about two and a half hours.
Now you can add hops to the wort and boil the resulting liquid for an hour and a half. At this stage, the drink gets its bitter taste and peculiar aroma.
Then the wort is clarified. This operation takes half an hour, after which the wort is cooled to seven degrees.
Next, brewer's yeast is added at the same time as the wort is transfused into cylindrical tanks. During the fermentation process, the sugar contained in the wort is fermented into carbon dioxide and ethyl alcohol. Fermentation takes place at a temperature of nine to ten degrees and lasts about a week.
Then the beer is fermented in closed tanks. Here the temperature should not exceed two degrees. Fermentation lasts eighteen days.
The final step is filtering. Here the beer is clarified and, if necessary, carbonation is carried out.
Most popular variety
The most popular Maykop beer in Moscow is Honest. It is light, unpasteurized. Alcohol in it is 4% vol. It belongs to the classic camp beer. Maykop Honest beer has a delicate hop aroma and a light golden color.
It is quite transparent, and the beer cap is very resistant, as it should be for this variety.
The taste of the drink is very refreshing, with a light pleasant bitterness. In its manufacture, Pilsen malt, soft mountain water and high-quality hops are used.
Thanks to these qualities, reviews about Maykop beer are only the most positive. All consumers agree when it comes to the taste of this drink. The taste is light, and the aroma will not leave indifferent any lover of a foamy drink.
No wonder "Maykop" beer in Rostov-on-Don, and in other cities of Russia, is the most popular among consumers of live beer.
Peppy light
We can not say about another favorite drink of our compatriots. This is the Maykop Peppy beer.
It is also a camp. Alcohol in it is 4.8% by volume, and the wort is 14%.
It has a light amber hue, a pronounced beer taste with a pleasant bitterness and a rich aroma. Beer received such brightness in taste and aroma from atec hops. An important role in the taste of the drink was played by the fact that the maturation period here is 45 days.
This beer was included in the list of 100 best goods of Russia for 2015.
The main thing is that beer lovers should remember that even such a high-quality product as Maykop beer should not be consumed in very large quantities. A good measure in everything!