Continuous Ferment

Since the first brew by Captain James Cook and the crew of the Resolution at Dusky Sound in April 1773, the story of beer has been deeply intertwined with the history of Aotearoa &– from the early settlers' prodigious consumption of golden ale to the six o' clock swill, from prohibition to the &‘ Black Budget' , from the domination of Lion and DB to the rise of craft beer.In this remarkable story of New Zealanders and beer, Greg Ryan tackles the big questions: Why did people drink and did they do so excessively by contemporary international standards? What did people drink and in what circumstances? How did tastes change over time? What role did brewers and publicans play in the community, other than as dispensers of alcohol?Richly illustrated, astute and entertaining, Continuous Ferment is both a fascinating analysis of New Zealand' s social history and a book for anyone with an enthusiasm for malt and hops, barrels and bottles, pilsners and porters.

This is the revised book: Kefir - For pleasure, beauty and well-being by Harald W. Tietze. Kefir, another miracle healer from the Caucasus. If you think that the only thing that can heal is a drug then you may see Kefir as a powerful drug. Healthy living food is something to preserve our health and life - to maintain our healthy body. One can make a test very simply and easily. If you take something, and you can live in good health without negative side effects, then it is a food. This book will show you how to handle this beautiful and cheap way to stay healthy, keep your beauty and feel well. Kefir grains are a biological production centre. Living foods like Kefir help to detoxify, support and balance digestion, and help in building up the immune system to counteract negative influences. During the fermentation process the Kefir grains change normal milk into the Kefir beverage. Lactic acid, ethanol, acetic acid, carbon dioxide and other compounds are produced as well as vitamins. This is one of the books written by Harald W. Tietze. There are another 34 books covering a wide spectrum of health knowlegde available. You will be surprised with the important research he has done and published.

why we ♥ it: Everyone is going crazy for kombucha! And in this digital book Alyce demystifies the entire process making it easy and straightforward for everyone to do at home. In our opinion, kombucha is the easiest and cheapest way to make your own probiotics at home, costing less than $1 per litre and requiring only a few minutes of your time weekly. And it actually tastes really delicious! Kombucha has been consumed for thousands of years for it’s medicinal properties, but it has received a lot of attention in the last few years for the role it plays in digestion and gut health, which are considered integral to overall health and wellbeing. This is because the gut determines which nutrients are absorbed by the body and which toxins, allergens and microbes are kept out. Plus, your entire immune system is protected by the gut, and you have more neurotransmitters in the gut than in your brain. So naturally, this is a very important area of our bodies that we want to keep as healthy as possible! Kombucha is a probiotic that will provide your gut with the live bacteria and yeasts that are needed to keep you balanced and thriving, as well as a whole host of other nutrients including vitamins C, B1, B2, B3, B6 and B12. bragging rights: • This book covers the basic principles, everything you need to get brewing, how to get started with a single first ferment, how to do a continuous first ferment (alyce’s pick!), how to do a second ferment and all of alyce’s tips and tricks to successful brewing • How to flavour your kombucha from apple and ginger to raspberry and rosemary and everything in between • The secrets to getting the best fizz, even better than the carbonated commercial varieties • How to keep the sugar levels super low if needed for those with insulin sensitivities, those quitting sugar or on a ketogenic diet • With alyce’s method you will spend less than 10 minutes once a week maintaining your kombucha (and you’ll always have it on tap!) • When you purchase this book you get exclusive access to alyce’s ‘kombucha krew’ where there are people to answer any remaining questions you might have specifics: • 23 page digital book containing extensive information as well as informative illustrations • Once purchased the digital book will be emailed directly to you ready for immediate use PLEASE NOTE: While this book is all the INFORMATION you need, you still NEED a kombucha SCOBY and starter liquid to begin brewing kombucha. We sell them in AUS and NZ at alycealexandra.com, but outside of us look online or ask a friend - anyone who brews always has more than enough SCOBYs to share!

Some ten years. have passed since the publication of the first edition of Malting and Brewing Science, a period of many changes. As before, this edition is an aid to teaching, particularly the MSc course in Brewing Science at Birmingham University, but it is also aimed at the requirements of other students of the science of malting and brewing throughout the world. In general, technological aspects are covered more fully in this new edition, although not malting and brewing practices that are exclusive to Britain. Nevertheless, the amount of technological information available is too great to be comprehensively covered iln one book. Scientific principles and infor mation receive more attention, but for details of analytical procedures reference should be made to the most recently published material of the Ameri can Society of Brewing Chemists, the European Brewery Convention and the Institute of Brewing. The new edition appears as two volumes because a single one would be inconveniently bulky. The first volume outlines the entire process and leads from barley, malting and water to the production of sweet wort. In the second volume there are chapters on hops and hop products, production of hopped wort, fermentation,yeast biology and all aspects of beer qualities and treatment. Decisions about the units of measurement proved difficult; metric units commonly used in the Industry are given and in parentheses are equivalents in degrees Fahrenheit, Imperial measures and UK barrels. Considerable information on equivalents is given in a special section in each volume.

Fermentation is a theme widely useful for food, feed and biofuel production. Indeed each of these areas, food industry, animal nutrition and energy production, has considerable presence in the global market. Fermentation process also has relevant applications on medical and pharmaceutical areas, such as antibiotics production. The present book, Fermentation Processes, reflects that wide value of fermentation in related areas. It holds a total of 14 chapters over diverse areas of fermentation research.

The author's aim in writing this book is to integrate currently available knowledge concerning the basic scientific and technological aspects of breadmaking processes with the diverse breadmaking methods used to manufacture bread in Europe and on the North American continent today. To date, the main technological advances have been in process mechanization, starting with oven development, then dough processing or make-up equipment, followed by continuous and batch mixing techniques from the 1950s to the present time. On the engineering side, universal emphasis is now being placed on the application of high technology, in the form of microprocessors, computer-controlled equipment and robotization, the long-term objective being computer integrated manufacture (CIM) with full automation within the large chain bakery groups in the capitalist countries and the state-run collectives of Eastern Europe. The application of these key technologies with biotechnology, as yet only applied to a limited degree in food manufacture, coupled with advances in biochemical and rheological understanding of dough as a biomass for breadmaking, should provide us with more expertise and ability to control the processes with greater efficiency. The application of fermentable substrates and industrial enzymes under strict kinetic control should contribute to improving the flavour characteristics of bread. Current trends towards improving the nutritional contribution of bread to the daily diet are improving the competitive edge of bread as a basic food in the market-place.