Brewing Science ― A Multidisciplinary Approach

This text finally collects all the introductory aspects of beer brewing science into one place for undergraduate brewing science courses. This expansive and detailed work is written in conversational style, walking students through all the brewing basics from the origin and history of beer to the brewing process to post-brew packaging and marketing. As an introductory text, this book assumes the reader has no prior knowledge of brewing science and only limited experience with chemistry, biology and physics. The text provides students with all the necessary details of brewing science using a multidisciplinary approach, with a thorough and well-defined program of in-chapter and end-of-chapter problems. The solutions to these problems illustrate how scientists think about problems in brewing and will help students develop a critical thinking approach to addressing concerns in brewing science.

As a truly comprehensive introduction to brewing science, Brewing Science: A multidisciplinary approach walks students through the entire spectrum of the brewing process. The different styles of beer, including their molecular makeup and physical parameters, are listed and outlined along with the current marketplace for each. All aspects of the brewery process, from the different setup styles to sterility to the presentation of the final product, are outlined in full, as are the needed in

gredients. All the important brewing steps and techniques are covered in meticulous detail, including malt, mash, wort, stilling and fermentation. Bringing the brewing process full circle, this text covers packaging aspects for the final product as well, focusing on everything from packaging technology to quality control. Students are also pointed to the future, with coverage of emerging flavor profiles, styles and brewing methods.

Each chapter in this textbook includes related laboratory exercises designed to develop a student’s capability to accurately and precisely conduct the analyses found in the American Society of Brewing Chemists Methods of Analysis. Much of the information in this book covers topics similar to those found on the General Certificate of Brewing and the Diploma in Brewing syllabi. Student success in the exercises provided within this book will allow them to, with minimal additional preparation, take and pass these examinations.

Michael Mosher,?Ph.D., is?Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, CO.?Kenneth Trantham, Ph.D., is?Chair of the Department of Physics and Physical Science at the University of Nebraska in Kearney, NE.
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