Talk:Brewing

British English

This page is meant to be written in British English but continuously is being changed to American. Perhaps semi-protection or similar may be needed? CoconutOctopus (talk) 19:18, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Done. We don't protect for one instance, but looking back, there have been assorted inappropriate or disruptive edits by IP accounts, and very few helpful edits. SilkTork (talk) 21:27, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protection

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Semi-protected edit request on 7 June 2024

In the Boiling -> Wort cooling section I would like a reference to the Cold liquor tank which currently has few pointers to it. The specific text edit I would like is change:

The cooling medium, usually water, goes through the other gaps.

to:

The cooling medium, usually water from a Cold liquor tank, goes through the other gaps.

I found the Cold liquor tank page and have made some significant improvements to it though it still needs to be cited and crosslinked to the relevant pages. The initial Cold liquor tank page had broken English and was describing a specific brewery, in India from what I could tell, rather than breweries in general. The edits I made to the Cold liquor tank page are from my knowledge of the brewing industry (I am involved in the design of the brewery factory improvements). I will work on the page over the coming days if I get the time to finish off the cross linking but I really don't have any sources for the information other than my experience working on these facilities and knowledge I gained by talking to guys in their 70s who refuse to retire about how breweries function. TheMuffinManNZ (talk) 09:28, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

 Already done ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 02:47, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

Correction: Brewing process

In the article on the Brewing process, it is stated "...they will be milled or crushed to break apart the kernels and expose the cotyledon, which contains the majority of the carbohydrates and sugars; this makes it easier to extract the sugars during mashing."

In cereal grains, the majority of the starch is from the endosperm. The cotyledon, called the scutellum in cereal grains, is a tiny structure supporting the embryo. It is rich in protein and lipid, not starch. The scutellum and outer layer of the endosperm (aleurone layer) secrete amylases to the endosperm to digest the starch. Ncarpita (talk) 12:02, 10 May 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for this information Ncarpita. Do you have sources. so we can use that information in the article. SilkTork (talk) 02:58, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

Correction has been made. SilkTork (talk) 12:15, 21 July 2026 (UTC)