The Breaning Process Of The Drinking And The Processing Process

4.2 THE BREWING PROCESS

The brewing process starts with the malted barley being lightly crushed into a coarse powder called grist. During this stage other cereals are also included such as flaked maize, un-malted barley and wheat. According to brewer, the flavor or color or appearance can be added. The Darker malts are used for stouts.

Whichever may be the beer, the brewing process is same for tall the beers. The production starts from transferring grist to a large vessel which is called mash turn, where it is slashed with hot water and the natural sugar is also dissolved, which is often called the water liquor. As result a sweet brown liquid run off though the vessel. That liquid is called wort that is then boiled with hops in another large

At this stage, the hopped wort is cooled and run into fermentation vessels. Yeast is added and it begins to convert the natural sugar into a alcohol, carbon dioxide and a rage of subtle flavors.

The beer is fermented differently according to the type of beer. The Lagers are fermented with different types of yeast which works at colder temperature and which sinks to the bottom of the fermenting vessel.

The next step is to conditioning. The conditioning process differs according to how the beer is to leave the brewery. The beers are bought to condition in the brewery, some are fine and filtered and some are pasteurized to guard against deterioration from microbes. They reach the consumer in casks, kegs, bottles or cans.

4.3 HISTORY OF BEER IN NEPAL

The first brewery industry in Nepal was established in 1971 A.D as Nepal Brewery Private Limited (NBPL), which produced Star Beer. Before the establishment of Nepal Brewery, Nepal used to import beer from India and abroad. HMG had limited the license to import the foreign brand. Thus Golden Eagle Beer, which used to be imported from India, was the only major competitor of Star Beer. However, in 1974 A.D, HMg of Nepal banded all the beer imported from India. Thus, Star Beer had its monopoly in the brewery market for about a

Both San Miguel and Tuborg have nearly increased their capacity four times since they came into the market. The present scenario is that almost all the beer plants have excess capacity than what there is really demand for. Although most of the beer plants have been running well in terms of capacity utilization, the returns have not been good because of heavy promotions and also because of decrease in demand for beer from the previous years.

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4.4 BEER INDUSTRY IN NEPAL

The beer industry in Nepal has come a long way since the establishment of Nepal Brewery pvt. Ltd, which was the first brewery to be established in Nepal. Since the establishment of Nepal Brewery in 1971, and the lunch of Star beer, the beer industry has seen many ups and downs. The industry saw the entry of several new brands of beer as well as exit of many of them from the industry.

With the entry of several beer companies in the industry, the producing of beer has increased over the years. The total beer production in the fiscal year 1987/88 was, 5,276 hectoliters while in the fiscal year 2002/03 the total production was 22800 liters. Fiscal Year

Beer Production (In thousand liters)

1987/88