I was wondering if any one knew what exactly goes into mass produced beers. I’m talking about what chemicals they use to make beer ferment faster or add as preservatives? Also the different kinds of alcohol produced by different sugars from cheap adjunct like corn or rice? Are the kinds of alcohol produced by cheap adjunct worse for your body?
Only one kind of alcohol is produced in any major amount by the yeast gobbling up the sugars and excreting alcohol, regardless of where the sugars come from. So the alcohol from barley sugars is the same as the alcohol produced by the yeast gobbling up the corn or rice sugars, or the candi sugars or the beet sugars. There are some sugars the yeast won't eat but if they will eat it the alcohol is the same regardless of which source of grain, etc. the sugars came from. BTW Rice is not cheap, it is often more expensive than barley. For example AB uses sushi grade rice in Bud and that typically costs more than the barley used in craft beers.
beer ferments faster: Great brewing techniques, the big boys have been doing it for a while and have it down to a science. Preservatives: I don't believe any of them use preservatives as far as i know, unless you count hops Different kinds of alcohol will be produced by the yeast besides ethanol, but it is at such low concentrations that its virtually nilch. Different adjuncts won't change this.
Hops are actually a preservative. In fact the name "IPA" or "Indian Pale Ale" comes from when Christopher Columbus brought beer over to the Indians in America on the first thanksgiving. The beer had to be loaded with tons of hops to make the voyage across the Atlantic.
"Hops are actually a preservative. In fact the name "IPA" or "Indian Pale Ale" comes from when Christopher Columbus brought beer over to the Indians in America on the first thanksgiving. The beer had to be loaded with tons of hops to make the voyage across the Atlantic." The first Thanksgiving was 1630, Columbus died in 1506. Not disputing the rest of the ipa story sounds reasonable. If I am mistaken in my facts please share, I am always interested in learning.
I really hope this was a troll trying to get some ignorant people go believe a somewhat feasible, yet entirely untrue story (except for extra hops being used as a preservative in the original English IPAs).
