The making of Beer

Have you ever wondered how the world's most favoured drink ' THE BEER ' is prepared?

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Beer is traditionally made from malted grains (typically barley), water, hops, and yeast. Some beer styles call for wheat to be mixed with the barley. Some breweries even use corn and/or rice mixed with barley because they are cheaper than barley.

The malted barley is steeped in very hot water (140 - 1580 F) for up to several hours, very much like a cup of tea. This liquid is called the sweet wort. The steeping of the malted barley converts the starches in the barley into fermentable sugars, thus the wort is sweet. The wort is then rinsed from the grains and put into the boiling kettle. The wort is boiled for anywhere from 1 hour to several hours. During the boil, hops are added to impart bitterness to balance the sweetness of the wort. Near the end of the boil, more hops are usually added. These later hops create the nose or flowery aroma in the beer.

The wort is then drained away from the hops and is chilled very quickly and placed into a fermentation tank. Yeast is then pitched into the wort. There are two basic styles of yeast
1) Lager or bottom fermenting yeast
2) Ale or top fermenting yeast
The yeast begins to convert the sugars into alcohol immediately (usually within the hour). After this conversion, some styles of beer call for more hops to be added to impart more hop aroma to the beer. This is called dry hopping.
After proper aging in the fermentation tanks, the liquid can be primed for bottling or kegging. The liquid is primed by adding more fermentable sugar that will produce the carbonation evident in the beer. Some beers are force carbonated by injecting carbon dioxide into the beer under pressure.
Most beers should be enjoyed within three months of bottling, lest they begin to lose their flavor and freshness. Some beers require extensive aging to develop complexity (ex: Thomas Hardy Ale). Yet others are ready to drink immediately but can still improve with age (ex: Chimay Grande Reserve).

So Next time when you take a gulp of the lager, thank me.

Cheers

Gatty

THe Top rock Song

Hi,
To write a song is tough ask. But to write a rock song is tougher. But when the song goes on to become a top rock song then the guy is really 'made for it'. ' Stairway to heaven' is arguably the most heard song ever.Jimmy page Robert Plant, John jones and John Bonham form the Led Zeppelin.

Here is a little piece of article flicked from the net. Hope you like it.


Though Black Sabbath was arguably a more influential band in regards to the history of heavy metal, no hard rock/metal discussion is complete without a mention of Led Zeppelin. Besides recording one of the most popular rock songs of all time ("Stairway To Heaven"), Led Zeppelin's back catalog has served as a blueprint for blues-based hard rock for decades. The list of instantly recognizable hits is staggering: "Whole Lotta Love", "Kashmir", "Communication Breakdown", "The Immigrant Song", "Rock And Roll", and on and on. The band abruptly broke up shortly after the unfortunate death of John Bonham in 1979, the remaining three asserting they could not continue without their drummer.
Led Zeppelin IV was the band's most musically diverse effort to date, featuring everything from the crunching rock of "Black Dog" to the folk of "The Battle of Evermore," as well as "Stairway to Heaven," which found the bridge between the two genres. "Stairway to Heaven" was an immediate radio hit, eventually becoming the most played song in the history of album-oriented radio; the song was never released as a single. Despite the fact that the album never reached number one in America, Led Zeppelin IV was their biggest album ever, selling well over 16 million copies over the next two and a half decades.

BEG, BUY, BORROW or STEAL. You must listen to it.


Enjoy rocking

GATTZ


Hey guys this is Mukku here. And to add to Gatty's AMAZING writup, here is the lyrics of the top rock song :

Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven

There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven.
When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for.
Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to heaven.

There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it makes me wonder.

There's a feeling I get when I look to the west,
And my spirit is crying for leaving.
In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees,
And the voices of those who standing looking.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it really makes me wonder.

And it's whispered that soon if we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason.
And a new day will dawn for those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter.

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now,
It's just a spring clean for the May queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on.
And it makes me wonder.

Your head is humming and it won't go, in case you don't know,
The piper's calling you to join him,
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.

And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul.
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold.
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last.
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll.

And she's buying a stairway to heaven.

All Along the Watch Tower(jimi Hendx)

Hi,
Jimi Hendrix the prodigy. Jimi Hendrix the mesmeriser. Jimi Hendrix the ..... Well u listen to him. The amazing guitarist lives by his guitar, Swears by it. This much passion about playing guitar probably no one has it, I believe. The song below is rated as the second best rock song of all times. Listen to the lead and solo. Amazing... That's Hendx for you

All Along the Watch Tower(JH):


"There must be some way out of here," said the joker to the thief,
"There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief.
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth,
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth."

"No reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke,
"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.
But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate,
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late."

All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.

Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl,
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl.

Gatty
This is also a must listen song

Time (Pink Floyd)

This is Supposed to be the third Best Rock song. And No wonder that it comes from pink Floyd.
The Lyrics gives an impression of a man who has passed his adulthood. He spent his time doing nothing. Staring at crucial moments of life without giving much thought for his future, and when he realises that he is far behind and there is much more to be achived, he finds that there is no time to do it.

Time
Pink Floyd
(Dark Side Of The Moon)

Ticking away the moments that make up the dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Kicking around on a piece of ground on your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
And you are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No-one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun!

(guitar solo)

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death!

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught, or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say


Gatty

(A must listen song)

SMILING GATTY 

Paraniod (Black Sabbath)

This little piece is taken from black sabbath which I love to hear. The lyrics runs in a simple fashion explaining about the life of an MITian (guess so!!!).

Here It Goes:

Finished with my woman 'cause she couldn't help me with my mind
people think that I'm insane because I am frowning all the time
All day long I think of things but nothing seems to satisfy
'Think I'll lose my mind if I don't find something to pacify

Can you help me occupy my brain?
Oh yeah

I need someone to show me the things in life that I can't find
I can't see the things that make true happiness, I must be blind

Make a joke and I will sigh and you will laugh and I will cry
Happiness I cannot feel like love to me is so unreal

And so as you hear these words telling you now of my state
I tell you to enjoy life, I wish I could but it's too late



Gatty

testing

Its a testing time
for all of us
when the feeling is right
when the moon glows bright
when the candle burns at midnight
we feel enclosed in a chamber of fright.

Afraid to raid the darkness
as the sound echos from emptiness
the devil returns to the den
the place in human mind.

Between these lines you have yourself trapped
drapped in the feeling of tiredness
As you drool you find it difficult
even to take a breath.

then you remember me
will forgive you for all the sins.