【発酵ソムリエ】懐かしい千歳に・・・ビール工場があった!
【発酵ソムリエ】北海道の千歳にある「一番搾り」に特化したキリンビール工場!
キリンビール千歳工場見学に行ってきました! 昔、住んでいました。
この工場は、なんといっても「一番搾り」に特化した施設なんです。
工場内では、カナダからの二条大麦を使用し、350ml缶でなんと60万本もの一番搾りを造っているそうです。
I went on a tour of the Kirin Beer Chitose factory!
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https://www.kirin.co.jp/experience/factory/wifi/chitose/
This factory is, after all, a facility dedicated to “Ichiban Shibori”.
The factory uses two-row barley from Canada to make 600,000 350ml cans of Ichiban Shibori.
Surprisingly, the factory is as large as four Hokkaido Fighters stadiums, and I was overwhelmed by its scale.
The name Ichiban Shibori sounds strange, but actually Ichiban Shibori is not like shochu made from sake lees, but rather a unique process related to how beer is brewed.
At Kirin, the usual blending process is to add hot water after the first pressing and do a second pressing, but here they use only the first pressing for the first time to make their product.
And we are particular about our hops. When you crack open the hops, you will see yellow lupulin inside.
This contains the ingredients that give beer its bitterness and aroma.
In fact, it is said that the bitterness and aroma of beer comes from the hops, and the secret lies in the alpha and beta acids in the lupulin, as well as in the essential oils.
During the tasting, visitors were able to enjoy a variety of beers, including a black beer made by roasting the wheat like coffee and a premium with a gorgeous lupulin aroma.
And the clear and refreshing taste of Ichiban Shibori was still exceptional.
The factory tour was very interesting, and I was able to appreciate once again the depth of the beer brewing process. I would like to continue to immerse myself in the fascination of beer!
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