Making a truly delicious beer is an art that developed through centuries.
Brewing consists of three main steps: malting, making wort and fermenting.
A brewer starts with preparing barley in a special manner (malting). The next step is mixing malt with water. Thus we receive sweet liquid called wort. Wort is to be boiled with aromatic hops and later fermented with yeast. The output is unfinished, or «green» beer. This product is sent for maturation, conditioning and filtration. After this it can be bottled.
Perfect beer should have plentiful, firm froth that remains on glass walls. The froth must be about 4 cm tall and remain stable for 4 minutes.
Brewers never add alcohol to beer for there is no need to do that. Content of alcohol in beer depends on concentration of extractive substances in wort, amounts and quality of ingredients, length and temperature of boiling. Therefore a relatively small amount of raw materials can give very strong beer.
People in different countries prefer different beer styles. For example, Russians drink more saturated, aromatic, dark and bitter beers than Americans. However a truly dark - porter - type of beer is much more popular in the UK than in any other country.
I'll explain to you in more details how we brew our beer at our breweries.