The basic ingredients are:
Water (self explanatory)
Malted Barley ("malted" means partially sprouted)
Hops (a flower that adds bitterness, aroma, and preservative qualities)
Yeast (makes the alcohol and CO2 by fermentation)
Malt extract is simply a form of pre-processed malted barley to save the home brewer a step.
But there are many more styles of beer and have a whole host of other ingredients based on what the final beer will be like.
Other ingredients can be:
Oats (popular in stouts like "oatmeal stout")
Rice and corn (cheaper ingredients for large scale production)
Wheat (for witbiers and hefeweizens)
Rye
Specialty Malts (for varying colors and flavors...nutty, toasty, etc)
Honey
Herbs and Spices (cinnamon, orange peel, liquorice root, and others)
Fruit and Berries (for different flavors and styles like Belgian Lambics)
Sorghum and Molasses
...and the list can go on based on the creativity of the brewer.
2007-10-03 15:31:32
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answered by Trid 6
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I want to answer truthfully so, I drink a lot of beer. so i looked for the ingredients on the bottle.........none were listed. wow.
it says brewed with fresh ingredients for a smooth taste.
► Malt Extracts & Barley Grains
Homebrewing Yeasts
Malted & Flaked Grains
► Dark Dried Malt
you can go to www.beeringredients and find all of them. sure hope I helped.
2007-10-03 12:16:54
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answered by booboobearus 2
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The basic ingredients of beer are water, malt, hops & yeast..
2007-10-03 12:37:15
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answered by peaches6 7
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I make my own beer and wine, and adequate of it may actually provide you a hangover. and that i will assure you my stuff is all organic and that i don't placed any humorous components in it to make it final longer, nor are any preservative chemical components used in commercially-made beers than i'm conscious of. i've got not got faith that hangovers are even led to via the alcohol itself, yet are extremely probable led to via extremely some different chemical components that are additionally established byproducts of fermentation. each time i've got had photographs of Everclear (organic grain alcohol) I honestly never had a hangover the subsequent morning. TO the folk ABOVE: the only reason pasteurization is comprehensive to maximum beers to make it final longer, is as a results of the fact all the yeast sediment has been filtered out of it. Beer that has been neither filtered nor pasteurized can final for years on the shelf (very reminiscent of wine) because of the fact the yeast displaces and overwhelms the different rogue bacteria that could injury the beer. the only subject with unfiltered beer is that if the yeast that settles on the backside gets stirred up, it has a tendency to make the beer flavor yeasty and bitter, that's why such unprocessed beer isn't suited for the effort-loose Joe Public form of beer shopper.
2016-11-07 04:28:49
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answered by Anonymous
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According to the Reinheitsgebot (Sp) established 1517 in Bremen Germany only water, malt, yeast, and hops
2007-10-03 13:13:12
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answered by ken G 6
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Water, barley, hops, malt, yeast. Or if you are a macrobrewery that doesn't care about quality, corn and rice is used.
2007-10-03 11:59:40
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answered by Anonymous
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Water,malted grain,hops and yeast inorder of quantity.
2007-10-03 12:06:57
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answered by tpwine69 2
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Water, malted barley, hops, and yeast.
2007-10-03 11:59:16
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answered by Anonymous
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malt and yeast!
2007-10-03 11:58:11
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answered by sandrine 3
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