Beer Flashcards
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Beer - Essential ingredients of beer - Water
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- Accounts for 85~90% of beer content.
- The chemical properties of differing water sources determine the style of beer that is brewed.
- Today, modern breweries can alter the chemical makeup of their water to brew many styles of beer.
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Beer - Essential ingredients of beer - Cereal Grain and Malt
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- Beer is traditionally made form cereal grains with barley being the most important for quality.
- Wheat, rice, corn, rye and oats are also used in smaller amounts.
- Starches in the grain must be converted to sugars for fermentation to occur.
- This is accomplished through germination of the grain to produce enzymes that turn starch into sugar, creating malt.
- The malt is then dried in a kiln.
- The temperature and length of time the malt is kilned is an important determinant of the color, flavor, aroma and style of a beer.
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Beer - Essential ingredients of beer - Yeast
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- It is reponsible for fermentation.
- different yeast strains determine if a beer is an ale or lager and often contributes distinctive aromas and flavors to beer.
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Beer - Essential ingredients of beer - Hops
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- Resin fromt he cone of the hop plant imparts bitterness to balance the sweet, malty character of beer.
- Allbeers use hops, but some feature them more prominently than others.
- Hops also rpvide aroma and flavor and act as a preservative.
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Beer - Essential ingredients of beer - Beer Categories
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- Ales
- Top-Fermenting Yeast
- Ferments Quickly at Warmer Temperatures
- Often More Fruity Aromas and Flavors are Created
- Ex) German: Hefewizen
- Ex) British: Pale Ale, India Pale Ale, Porter
- Ex) Irish: Stout
- Ex) Belgian: Lambic, Wit or White Bier
- Lagers
- Bottom-Fermenting Yeast
- Ferments Slowly at Cooler Temperatures
- More Subtle, Crisp and Clean Flavors
- Ex) Czech Republic: Pilsner
- Ex) German: Bock, Doppelbock, Oktoberfest
- Ex) Large-Scale European and American Lagers
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Beer - Which of the following is not a primary ingredient in beer?
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- Oak
- Malt
- Hops
- Yeast
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Beer - Hops contribute which of the following to beer?
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- All of the above
- Bitterness to balance the sweetness of malt
- Provide aroma and flavor
- Act as a preservative
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Beer - What is malt in beer?
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- Germinated barley tht contributes the sugars needed for fermentation
- Resins that contribute bitterness to beer
- 90% of the beer and can be chemically altered
- Caused fermentation to happen
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Beer - What are the two broad beer categories of ale and lager are based on?
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- Strain of yeast used for fermentation
- Color of the malt
- Kilning
- Level of bitterness
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Beer - Which of the follwing beer styles is an example of an ale?
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- Stout
- Pilsner
- Doppelbock
- Oktoberfest
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Beer - Which of the following beer styles is an example of a lager?
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- Pilsner
- IPA
- Stout
- Hefeweizen