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This is done by the copper pipes filled with water that take on the warmth from the wort.
Once the right temperature has been reached, and only then, does another basic component of nature come into the game: the yeast.
What actually happened during fermentation was a big mystery to our forefathers, something close to a miracle. Today we know that in this natural process, malt sugars are converted into alcohol and carbon dioxide.
The right choice of the yeast is highly important: our yeast strain is safe and sound in the yeast store of the Technische Universität München / Weihenstephan. Once a year, the UERIGE yeast receives a rejuvenating cure and is brought into action in our UERIGE brewery - nowhere else.
The yeast we use is called top-fermenting yeast, because during the fermenting process, it rises to the top.
During this process, the wort slowly ferments. Once again, experience and sure instinct of the master brewer are vital: he knows best when to stop the fermenting process by drastically cooling the liquid, which is known as green beer.
During the process of aging, the beer continues a controlled, secondary fermentation and matures.
The green beer, or in our case, the young altbier, remains in the UERIGE maturation cellar for controlled secondary fermentation.
Here it can mature and develop its unmistakable delicious flavor, becoming what we know as the yummy droplet.
Secondary fermentation in the maturation cellar takes at least three weeks. Modern technology allows for guaranteed exact control and highest standards of hygiene.
The beer only becomes clear (brewmasters say ‹bright‹) after the UERIGE has been very gently filtered.
The natural cloudy components and suspended solids that swim in the beer are very gently filtered in various stages – filtering with feeling:
Here, too, our house brewery adheres to the tradition of the Reinheitsgebot, the Purity Law. We do not use any additives, stabilizers or any other artificial means of vamping up: natural is natural.
The crystal clear UERIGE, matured to perfect taste, now is bottled or filled into kegs.
This is where our kegs and bottles are filled – to be sold or to be served straight away.
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