Beer Flashcards
What is the oldest alcoholic beverage known to man?
Mead
What is “wort?”
A sugar-rich liquid from malted grain
What is the Reinheitsgebot?
When was it enacted?
What did it entail?
Bavarian Purity Law
1516
It codified the three allowable ingredients for beer as: hops, barley, and water.
The style of beer desired is largely determined by what?
The temperature and duration of drying malted barley
Longer roasts result in darker beers, while lower temperature drying results in “pale” ales.
What is the general process for making beer?
- Barley is “malted,” or steeped in water for 2 days to germinate grain and transform starches into fermentable sugars.
- The green malt is roasted in a desired manner.
- The grain is ground or cracked to produce grist, which is then “mashed” with hot water for 1 to 2 hours to produce “wort.”
- The wort is boiled for stabilization and hops are added. The wort is then strained and chilled for fermentation.
What type of yeasts are used for Ales and Lagers?
How do they contribute to different styles of beer?
Ale: “Saccharomyces cerevisiae.” Top-fermenting yeast that prefer warmer temperatures and produce fruity, flavor rich beers. Fermentations are quick.
Lagers: “Saccharomyces pastorianus.” Bottom-fermenting yeasts that prefer lower temperatures and ferment more slowly. More delicate, cleaner flavors.
What is a bottle-conditioned beer?
It is bottled unfiltered and undergoes partial fermentation in bottle.
Lambics are a specialty of what country?
How are they made?
Belgium
They are spontaneously fermented in open-top containers with native wild yeasts (Brettanomyces Bruxellensis and Brettanomyces Lambicus).
Often aged up to 3 years in cask, and aged hops are used (contributing little hoppy flavor). They are also blended before release.
What is a Geuze and how is it made?
What is another name for them?
A style mixing a 1 year Lambic with beers that have aged 2 to 3 years.
The blend still have fermentable sugars, which then referment in bottle.
Brussels Champagne
What are the appropriate serving temperatures for:
Lagers
Lighter Ales and draught bitter beers
Lambics, stouts, brown ales, etc.
48-52 F
54-57 F
Cool room temperature
What is a Trappist Beer?
Name 5 producers and where they are located
Beer brewed by Trappist Monks
Orval - Belgium Chimay - Belgium Rochefort - Belgium Westmalle - Belgium St. Joseph's Abbey - Massachusetts
What type of beer are stouts and porters?
Ales or Lagers?
Ales
What types of lagers are there?
Pilsner Bock (Doppelbock, Eisbock, Maibock) Marzen/Fest Beer Vienna Style Dortmunder Schwarzbier Munich Helles Pale Lager
What is the minimum amount of wheat needed for a wheat beer?
What styles of wheat beer are there?
60% (50% in Germany)
Hefe Weizen
Dunkel
Kristall Weizen - Filtered, crystal clear
White Beer - Often includes orange peel and coriander
What does specific gravity refer to in the production of beer?
The relative density of the wort or must compared to water
