Molson Export - Brewing Process

Brewing Process

The brewing process consists of several steps, including:

• mashing and lautering the malted barley,
• boiling and fermenting wort from the brewhouse,
• conditioning, filtering, and packaging the beer.

The key ingredients in this process are: malted two-row barley, brewer’s yeast for fermentation, hops for flavouring and water. In keeping with its founder’s brewing principles, Molson Export has used some of the same ingredients for over 100 years: two-row malted barley, an exclusive strain of yeast whose use dates back to the foundation of the Molson Brewery, hand-picked hops from Oregon and British-Columbia, and carefully filtered water.

Barley

The word "Ale" is of Germanic or Scandinavian origin and was used to refer to a fermented drink made of barley. Molson Export uses a custom blend of different varieties of two-row malted barley. The malting process consists of letting the grains soak and germinate before lightly roasting them. Once malted, the barley adds body, flavour and colour to the beer, as well as sugars and nutrients that activate the yeast.

Yeast

The strain of Ale yeast used in the Molson Export brewing process dates back to the foundation of the Molson Brewery. Yeast is responsible for the transformation of sugars into alcohol. A typical Ale is fermented more vigorously and at higher temperatures than Lagers. The fermentation temperature must, among other things, be verified every hour to produce the balanced flavour and subtle notes of apple that are characteristic of Molson Export.

Hops

This aromatic plant allows for the better preservation of beer. During the brewing process, its flowers are used as a spice. Hops thus play an essential role in producing the taste, bitterness and aroma of beer. This is what gives Molson Export its distinctive spicy notes. Molson Export has always used Golding and Oregon varieties in the brewing recipe, despite being rare. This is one of the ways the master brewers of Molson Export perpetuate the beer’s long tradition.

Water

Molson thoroughly filters all impurities in the water and conserves only the natural minerals that are essential to proper fermentation.