Análise das cervejas tipo Cream Ale, Pilsen e Saison, segundo as especificações legais

Abstract

Beer is one of the most consumed and produced beverages in the world, its consumption comes from antiquity, there is evidence of its origin in the region of Mesopotamia, where the barley grows wild, where the first records of manufacture have about 6 thousand years being shipped to the Sumerian people who lived in the region, It is believed that the first beer produced has been made accidentally, where documents from 2100 BC. The objective of the work was to prepare three types of beer, crem ale, pilsen and Saison, and to analyze its specifications according to the current norm, as well as to perform a compilation of data regarding beer production. The methodology described in Decree 6871/09 of ANVISA was used, which determines the standardization, classification and specification of beer in the country. In this work we determined the color, density, alcoholic content and the primitive extract of the three beers, through specific calculations and instrumental analysis, where it was concluded that they meet the parameters determined by law, being therefore considered alcoholic beers.