February 2020

Evaluation of maturation congeners in beer aged with Brazilian woods

Beer is the most consumed alcoholic beverage in Brazil. In this paper, wood aged beer was made with some Brazilian wood species, that is, chestnut, Cariniana sp., balsam, oak, and amburana. This maturation process can be done with wooden cubes, chips or in barrels. The main differences between the processes are related to the surface area of wood in contact with the beer as well as where it is stored. They provide...

Author(s): Bernardo Pontes Guimarães, Luis Eduardo Pereira Neves,  Munique Gonçalves Guimarães and Grace Ferreira Ghesti