Beer/Cider Flashcards
What is Biere de Garde
Flemish/ Northern French bottle conditioned beer
Different styles of wheat beer
Hefeweizen (means “yeast wheat”)
Dunkel
Kristall Weizen
White Beer (wit bier) orange peel and coriander
What is IBU
International Bitterness Units scale
5-120
IPA is 70-90
Measures PPM of Isohumulone found in beer (gives bitterness)
What is the difference between Gose and Geuze
Geuze is a lambic where they take beer and ferment it with another lambic, Mix of one year old beer with 2-3 year old beer
Goze: brewed with salt and coriander
French AOPs for cider
Contentin
Cournouaille (Cornwall)
Domfront
Pays d’Auge
Departements of Pays d’Auge
Calvados (Largest)
L’Eure
L’Orne
Encepagement for Pays d’Auge and Cornovaille (Cornwall) AOP
Orchards must contain a min 70% bitter (phenolic variety) and max 15%acidic varieties
A single apple variety may not account for more than ____% of the blend in Pays d’Auge AOP
60%
What are some recommended varieties of phenolic/bitter apple
Contentin AOP
Belle dille de la Manche
Binet Rouge
Bois Tingant
Cartigny
Closette
Feuillard
Gros Amer
Marin Onfroy
Peau de Chien
Petit Amer
Rouge de Cantepre
Sans Pareille
Tapin
Tet de Brebis
Taureau
Departments of Poiré Domfront AOP
La Manche
Mayenne
Orne
Categories of apples for Sidre de Asturias AOP (8)
Acids: Durona de Tresali, Blanquina, Limón Montes, Theoretical, San Roqueña, Raxao, Fuentes, Xuanina
Sweets: Ernestina, Verdialona
Sour-bitter: Regona
Bitter: Clara
Bitter-semi-acid: Meana
Sweet-bitter: Coloradona
Semi-acid: Solarina, De la Riega, Collaos, Perico, Carrió, Prieta, Perezosa
Semi-acid-bitter: Panquerina
Min RS for Cornwall (Brittany’s first AOP (cider)
20 g/l
What is Marzen-Orfest
Lager brewed in March in caves over summer
September ceremony
Is Schwarzbier a lager or ale
A lager. Copy of english porter
What is cream ale?
Ale/lager blend, both yeasts.
Warm fermentation temps, stored cold
Sweetness designations for Sidra de Asturias AOP
Dry: Less than 30 g/l of residual sugar
Semi-Dry: Between 30 g/l and 50 g/l of residual sugar
Sweet: More than 50 g/l of residual sugar with a maximum of 80 g/l of residual sugar
What is green malt
The sprouted Barley that has soaked in water two days before roasting
Name the fermentable sugars that produce beer
Maltose and dextrin
what year was the Bavarian purity law created what is it
1516 only barley hops and water allowed
name for the top fermenting yeast in ale
Name for the bottom fermenting yeast in Lager
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Saccharomyces pastoranius
What is sparging
Rinsing spent grains with fresh water to extract additional sugar and flavor after wort is drawn off grains
how is Lambic made
Spontaneously fermented in open top containers with native yeast.
Wild Yeast:
Brettanomyces Bruxellenis
Brettanomyces lambicus
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Lactobacillus
hops provide antibacterial qualities, not bitterness (usually aged)
all the styles of lager
Pilsner
Bock
Marzen/fest beer
Vienna style
Dortmunder
Black/Schwarz
Munich Helles
Pale Lager
Styles of trappist beer
Patersbier (special light belgian ale)
enkel (single)
dubbel
tripel
quadrupel
Trappist beers
Orval (1931)
Chimay (1863)
Westvleteren (1838)
Rochefort (1595)
Westmalle (1836)
Achel (1998, ceased trappist production 2021)
Konigshoeren (1884)
Stift Engelzell (Austria)
Mariawald (1956, Germany)
St Josephs Abbey (2013, ceased production 2022)
Abdi
Maria Toevlucht
Tre Fontane (Rome)
Trappist monasteries with beers not produce within the walls of the monastery
Mont des Cats (Made at Scourmont Abbey, Chimay in Belgium)
San Pedro de Cardena (Castilla Y Leon, Spain, now produced at Fabrica de Cervenas in Madrid)
What is Rauschbier
Smoked beer
famously produced in Bamberg (Franken Germany)
what is California Common
Lager fermented at warmer than normal temperature
From what province in Belgium does Saison come from
Hainaut province
Where is Grolsch brewery located?
Netherlands
Is bock a lager or an ale
Its a lager
Sidre de Asturias AOP regulations for Sidra (Cider)
Collecting, purifying, pressurizing and re-incorporating CO2 derived from fermentation is permitted
The addition of CO2 from any other source besides the fermentation is prohibitted
The addition of sugar syrup or sweet concentrated must is allowed up to 80g/l
The concentration of must collected from pressing is allowed
Has a consistent bubble
All cider bottled in Asturias
Is The addition of caramel color is permitted in Sidra de Asturias?
YES
“Natural Cider/Sidra” requirements
CO2 may not be collected and re-incorporated
Concentrating and/or additions to the must are not permitted
Mainly still, but can have a slight effervescence
All cider/sidra must be bottled within Asturias
IBUs of Weisbier and Dunkelweiss
10 - 15 IBU
Lager: 7
IBU of Dusseldorf Altbier (Ale)
25 - 48
What is an Extra Special Bitter (ESB)?
English Ale, 30 - 55 IBU
Basic steps in beer production
Malting
Mashing
Boiling (When hops are added to wort)
Cooling
Fermentation
Packaging
What is a Mars (beer)
mild lambic produced by reusing the malt from a previous lambic fermentation
What is Faro (beer)
mixture of lambic and a lighter brewed beer. Belgian candy sugar is added for sweetness
