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Wazza > wrote:
>"Joel" > wrote in message:
>: Lacustral > wrote:
>: >I'd like to make my own glucose syrup, using enzymes - can somebody help
>: >me with the process? Apparently you use alpha and beta amylases - they
>: >use them in beer brewing sometimes, but I might look for amylases
>: >from bacteria & fungi, rather than the pancreatic enzymes that are (I
>: >think) used in beer brewing.
>:
>: I can't help with your problem, but in brewing beer
>: we use the naturally-occuring enzymes that are present
>: in malted barley (and wheat). No added enzymes are
>: typically used.
>
>but don't you heat in acidic conditions to make your wort?


We heat, and many of us don't do explicit acidification--
we simply heat the grains in water and let the chips fall
where they may wrt pH.
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Joel Plutchak "I'm in beer class / Every Thursday night"
- "Sinister Foxx", _Title TK_, The Breeders