Beer Flashcards
What is the sugary rich liquid derived from malty grains to make beer called
Wort
What are the 4 key ingredients to a Beer
Water, Yeast, Hops and a starch source
What are hops
Dried flower structures that provide bitterness and flavour to Beer
What is the reason for adding hops to beers, beyond taste
Hops act as preservative and have antiseptic, anti bacterial qualities
When was Bavarian Purity law (Reinheitsgebot) established
1516
What were the three ingredients proscribed in Reinheitsgebot
Barley, Water and Hops
Which enzyme coverts the starch to sugar during malting
Amylase
What does amylase breaks the starch into
Fermentable sugars - Maltose and Dextrin
How do you suppress further growth in Green Malt
By drying and roasting using hot air
What determines the degree of roasting in Beer Malt
The style desired for the finished beer; light for Pale Ale, highly roasted black malt for porter
What is the name given to the milled ground malt
Grist
What is the name of tank where grist is combined with hot water
Mash Tun
What is the name of the liquid produced by drawing off from solids from the mash tun
Wort
What is Sparging
Risnsing the spent grains used to make wort with fresh water, to draw out flavours and sugars still left
Why is sparging not extensively used
It may cause unwanted bitterness in the finished brew
Why is the wort boiled for over an hour
To stabilise and sterilize, darken the colour and reduce excess water. Also extract bitterness from hops
What is hopback chamber
The wort is passed through hopback chamber after boiling to regain hop flavours lost during excessive boiling
Which wort is cooled to a lower temperature, Lager or Ale
Lager wort is cooled to lower temperature
What is the name of the yeast used for Ales
Saccharomyces cerevisiae - top fermenting yeast
What is the name of bottom fermenting yeast in a Lager
Saccharomyces pastorianus
What is the old name of Saccharomyces pastorianus
Saccharomyces Carlsbergensis
What is the difference in fermentation temperature of Ales and lagers
Ales ferment at higher temperature, lagers are lower.
Ales finish fermentation in about a week, lagers take longer
When are the beers pasteurised
In the conditioning tanks, before bottling
What are bottle onditioned beers
Beers that undergo partial fermentation in the bottle. Unfiltered and unpasteurised
What are cask Ales
Unfiltered beers transferred to casks, unpasteurised, to be used as draught beers
What are lambic beers
Beers fermented in open tanks with wild yeast, sour and aged for upto three years, usually blended
What are the yeasts active in fermenting Lambic beers
Brettanomyces bruxellensis and Brettanomyces lambicus
What is a Geuze
Beer produced by mixing 1 year old lambic with 2 to 3 year old lambics
Which beer is called Brussels Champagne
Geuze, due to the refermentation in bottle because of sugars from 1 year old lambics
What are Kriek Beers
Fruit lambics fermented with morello cherries
Name two noteworthy producers of fruit lambics
Lindemans
Cantillon
What is the optimum serving temperature for lagers
48 to 52 degree F
What is the optimum serving temperature of Ales and draughts
54 to 57 degree F
What style of beer is Burton, abbey and stout
Ale
What style of beer is Dortmunder, Boch, Munich Helles and Marzen
Lagers
What kind of beer is Mars
Mild lambic produced by reusing the malt from previous lambic
What kind of beer is Faro
Lambic mixed with lighter brewed style, added belgian candy sugar
How much Wheat is typically there in Wheat Beer
50% minimum in Germany, usually 60%
What is a Kristall Weizen
Filtered wheat beer
What is Hefe Weizen
Yeast - Wheat, unfiltered wheat beer
Where would you find Mount St Bernard trappist beer
England, Leicestershire
Where would you find Tre Fontaine trappist beer
Italy, Rome
Name a Austrian Trappist Beer
Stift Engelszell
Name 2 Trappist Beers of Netherlands
Koenigshoven, Abdij Maria Toevlucht
Name few Belgian Trappist Beers
Orval
Chimay
Westmalle
Rochefort
Westvleteren
Where do you find Mont des Cats Trappist Ale? What is special about it
French Trappist ale, produced in Chimay Abbaye now
What is Biere de Garde
Bottle conditioned Ale from Northern France
What is California Common
Lager beers fermented at higher temperature that usual. Anchor Steam
What is Kolsch
German Ale fermented cooler than normal
What is Kvass
Rye based Russian beer, fermented with fruit juice
What is Rauchbiere
smoked German Beer produced in Bamberg
What are Saison Beers
Belgian Farmhouse Ales from Hainaut province
