ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF BEER PRODUCTION IN NIGERIA

Abstract

Eight brands of beer were bought from the open market in Nigeria. The samples were pre treated using prescribed reagents and analyzed based on parameters such as colour, pH, originalgravity,alcocontent,dissolved CO2, foreign gas, diacetyl, foam stability and turbidity. Results obtained werecompared with European brewing convention (EBC) and it showed permissible level for both lagers and stout beers are within acceptable limit except for pH, foam stability and bitterness which are within, below or above the standard for some beers. The original gravity of 33 is below standard 11.2 as against 11.6+ _2 diacetyl of Guinness stout, legend and Turboking are all within the value of 0.18, 0.32 and 0.15 respectively as against 0.50mg/l. In all of them they tried to conform to EBC standard.