The Production Process
Beer is brewed from three basic ingredients:
Barley malt hops and water
Yeast will be added during the fermentation process to reduce the sugar contents of the beer juice referred to as wort to produce alcohol carbon dioxide gas (CO2) and energy in form of heat.
Yeast typically will be removed at the end of the maturation period and beer is now ready for consumption.
Malt
Barley is grown globally. We purchase most of our brewers malt in Europe and is classified a grain. These are linked to SAB/Miller and usually exclusively supply the breweries.
The first step of the brewing process is the malting of barely. This process happens in a malting plant. Malt is nothing but processed barley and is readily available and can be purchased from these malt companies in bulk or in 20 or 50 kg bags.
Our malt would be arriving in a 20 ft container in 25 kg bags.
Hops
Hops is similarly grown in Europe, primarily in southern Germany (Bavaria) and the Czech Republic. Hops itself is a resin trapped in the hop cone. This resin is a bitter substance and could be classified the spice in the beer giving it bitterness, character and aroma. Small quantities of this hops usually in form of a pressed pellet, are added to the boiling wort during the brewing process. If one lives near a brewery or has passed by a brewery the distinctive smell is created by the boiling hops. Our American Red Ale is brewed with hops from the Pacific North West of the US of America.
Water
Water is a very important element in the brewing process. 95% of a beer is pure water. Water characterizes a beer just as much as the ingredients that go into the beer. The water thus requires a brewing water quality and is prepared as such through filtration, and electro-chemical processes as well as sterilization.
It goes without saying that the process a craft brewery uses as such also the CBC is nothing less than the terms rules and regulations set out in the “Reinheitsgebot” the German purity law from 1516.
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Craft Beer
A Craft Beer is typically a hand crafted beer, brewed on a small brewing system that is far removed from the almost factory-like environment of the large modern breweries.
Internationally and especially in the United States of America, home brewers, micro breweries, and brew-pubs have reintroduced to the American beer enthusiast the wide variety of styles and flavours available through the small scale production of high quality, hand-crafted, naturally brewed, and served fresh beers. As more and more beer lovers around the globe have come to demand this variety and quality, microbrewers have found an expanding and lucrative niche in an otherwise stagnant global mass beer market.
Products
The essence of Craft brewing is to allow for a variety of beers and not to standardize the range of products. Our quest is to present the products in its most natural state unfiltered and unpasteurized. Shelf life is extended by removing the yeast from the product and also by pasteurizing the beers. Both processes compromise taste and quality in terms of “goodness” being eliminated.
We have introduced five beers initially:
- Bavarian Style Weissbier (top fermented beer)
- German “Helles” commonly known as a lager beer (bottom fermented beer)
- “Gold” which is a filtered lager beer. The yeast has been filtered from the beer to expose the bright golden beer colour so common in Southern Africa.
- American Style red Ale is the first of its kind to be brewed in Namibia and promises to entice many beer lovers to learn more about the vast variety of beers beyond our common lager beers dominating the beer landscape of southern Africa
- Light Weissbier designed to cater for the beer enthusiast preferring lower alcohol content beers and at the same time crafted with a lower hop dosage creating a less bitter flavour.
- Seasonal beer known as the “Sundowner” which compliments a season and is brewed only in limited quantities. If you have missed it during it’s season you will have to wait another year for it to reappear or simply just wait for the sun to go down in another season … let us surprise you time and again.
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