Up to this point, we've been making tea. Thick, grainy, sweet tea, but tea nonetheless. In order to make the final transformation to wort, we need to bring every piece of the brew day together for one last stage in our boil kettle.
Up to this point, we've been making tea. Thick, grainy, sweet tea, but tea nonetheless. In order to make the final transformation to wort, we need to bring every piece of the brew day together for one last stage in our boil kettle.
Hops have only recently become the flavouring staple we're used to in this age of craft obsession; they were originally employed (and remain useful) as a natural sanitising agent due to their high concentrations of “alpha” acids.