A variety of sorghum popularly referred to as
chire (or kyere) by Dagaarti pito brewers was used
for malting and brewing of pito. The sorghum grains
were obtained from a local supplier and kept in a
hermetic grain bag (SuperGrainBagIITM) until used
for malting. The dried malt was milled for three
30 second periods to obtain fine grits and flour (i.e.
from receiver up to 500 micron sieve) composition of
80% using a water cooled laboratory mill IKAM20
(IKA Labortechnik, Janke & Kunkel GmbH &
Co. Kg, Staufen, Germany). A mashing process as
described by Agu and Palmer, (1997) was followed
with addition of calcium ions in the form of calcium
chloride at 200 ppm to the mash liquor. The mash
was stood for 18 hrs to sour at ambient temperature
of 29o
C, filtered and boiled to obtain the sweet wort.