Problems producing raw grain beers using high percentages of rice
Raw Grain Beers - The world beer production was conducted with the usage of up to 90 % malt surrogates where also rice belongs to. By using rice an autonomous beer type originates that can open up a market niche due to its flavour based specifics. The usage of rice as malt surrogate is a challenge from a technical and technological point of view being researched analytically by the Chair for Brewing Technology I. The following article reports about results and fundamental findings at the production of raw grain beers.
The world beer production is being conducted by using up to 85 to 90 percent malt surrogates (1). One of the most used "raw" raw materials is rice in the quality of broken rice. In doing so, some breweries have opened up their own market segment. report about 6.