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Beer as Liquid Bread

MBAA TQ vol. 44, no. 1, 2007, pp. 15-18  |  VIEW ARTICLE

Charles W. Bamforth. Department of Food Science and Technology, University of California, Davis, CA.

Abstract
The histories of bread and beer are intertwined. There are some similarities in their production: both are cereal-based industries, both involve milling and fermentation stages, and issues such as protein oxidation are common problems or opportunities. However, the production of beer remains substantially more complex than that of bread. Analytically the common origins of bread and beer mean that some components of beer, such as B vitamin content, are not dissimilar to those of bread.

Keywords: beer, bread, composition, history, technology 

S�ntesis
Las historias de cerveza y pan est�n �ntimamente entrelazadas, aun cuando la elaboraci�n de cerveza es sustancialmente m�s compleja que la del pan. Ambas son industrias basadas sobre cereales, ambas cuentan como parte de sus procesos la molienda y etapas de fermentaci�n y tienen problemas comunes, tal como la oxidaci�n prote�nica. Los or�genes comunes de cerveza y pan a veces surgen anal�ticamente, cuando vemos, por ejemplo, que el contenido de vitaminas del complejo B de la cerveza tiene su similitud con componentes del pan.

Palabras claves: cerveza, composici�n, historia, pan, tecnolog�a

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