Colored beer
Colored beer , technically correct roasted malt beer , is an extract made from colored malt in the same way as beer and highly concentrated using a special cooking process. It can be added to a beer at any point in the brewing, fermentation or storage process.
Intended use
Colored beer is an everyday and popular tool in breweries.
- It is a dye that does not have to be declared as such because it is identical in substance.
- It is largely tasteless.
- It enables color fluctuations caused by production and raw materials to be balanced, which is particularly important in large-scale industrial production and in the premium segment.
Since color beer is beer in the legal sense and the blending of different beers is not prohibited even by the purity law, color beer offers commercial breweries considerable opportunities for rationalization. In this way, a large amount of light base beer can be produced in one brewing process and some of it can later be colored dark. Consumers are offered two completely different beers in stores without the need for two brewing processes. Such colored beers are only are identified as marketable .
commitment
In 1902 the production of Weyermann's colored beer began from the roasted and colored malts produced in the factory. The surrogate-free and debittered black roasted malt beer "Sinamar" ("sine amaro" = "without bitterness") was produced from 1905 to the Second World War in the Johann Baptist Weyermann branch of the color beer brewery in Potsdam.
Colored beer is not produced by the breweries themselves, but by specialist suppliers. As a beer that is not produced for consumption, but for the production of other foods, colored beer is exempt from beer tax in Switzerland.
The first German roasted malt beer brewery was founded by Carl Betz in Celle in 1893 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ D. Lachenmeier: Coloring of dark beers with roasted malt beer concentrate. CVUA Karlsruhe , November 24, 2008, accessed on May 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Beer Tax Act Art. 13 (PDF file; 77 kB)
