Cervejas especiais: revisão literária com ênfase nas fruit beers

Abstract

The Brazilian beer market is growing year by year, reaching the mark of more than twelve hundred breweries registered with the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MAPA). As a result, the number of registered products resulting from this growth process has also grown, which has been driven by consumers looking for differentiated products. To gain space, competitiveness and serve this consuming public, brewers have sought to innovate more and more in the beers produced, incorporating new raw materials and adjuncts into the processes. Within these innovations, craft beers have stood out, especially beers with added fruit, known as Fruit Beers. The scientific literature has sought to support and provide studies that collaborate with progress. There are several studies in which authors prepare new beer recipes and from these perform physicalchemical analyzes, discuss quality parameters, perform sensory analyzes to discuss the acceptance of the produced Fruit Beers, perform antioxidant activity analysis, among others. So, this work aims to elaborate a literature review about Fruit Beers beers, highlighting market aspects, the academic contribution to the progress of this sector, the production process of this type of beer, studied parameters, acceptability before the public. For this purpose, scientific works were found via Google Scholar, Capes Periodicals, congresses in general, repositories, pages of periodicals and newspapers. Therefore, as a result, we hope to obtain work that gathers accurate and relevant information and that can help beer producers in their productions, thus giving my contribution. In addition, it clarifies in this work the stages in which the addition of fruit, in its most diverse formats, brings greater benefits to beer, in terms of aroma, flavor and bioactive compounds and how brewers can use the information contained in scientific works to guide your revenues, your business and seek to formulate products of greater acceptability and competitiveness in the market.