Beer, Cider, and Mead Flashcards
Who produces Nastro Azzuro?
Peroni
What is the traditional difference between a stout and a porter?
stout is brewed with less water, making it stronger
Torulaspora delbrueckii is the signature yeast strain of what beer style?
hefeweizen
Recommend a porter
- Fullers London Porter
- Duck Rabbit Porter
- Deschutes Black Butte Porter
- Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald
Sohneider Weisse ‘Aventinus’ and Weihenstephaner ‘Vitus’ are both what style of beer?
Weizenbock
What is a Berliner Weisse?
sour German wheat ale brewed with lactobacillus
(ex Hottenroth)
When was the reinheitsgebot decree enacted?
1516
In beer fermentation, what is the name for bottom-fermenting yeast?
saccharomyces Pastorianus
What are the 2 main types of hops categories?
- aroma
- bittering
List 3 types of hops
- ahtaunum
- amarillo
- bravo
- brewers gold
- cascade
- citra
- delta
- goldings
- hersbrucker
- magnum
- pacific gem
- perle
- riwaka
- saaz
- sorachi ace
- spalt
- summit
- target
- tettnanger
- willamette
Recommend a witbier
- Allegash White
- Hoegaarden Original
- Hitachino Nest White Ale
- Three Floyds Gumballhead
What are the traditional beers of a black and tan?
Guinness and Bass English Pale Ale
What are the main beers of Yoho Brewing?
- Aooni IPA
- Tokyo Black Porter
- Yona Yona Ale
- Wednesday Cat Belgian White
List a brewery other than Blue Moon bottling a hefeweizen
- Ayinger (Brau-Weisse)
- Franziskaner (hefe-weisse)
- Brooklyn Brewery (Brooklyn Weisse)
List 2 IPAs
- Brooklyn Brewery ‘East India Pale Ale’
- Great Lakes ‘Commodore Perry’
- Dogfish Head ‘60 Minutes’
- Stone IPA
- Ballast Point ‘Sculpin’
- Lagunitas IPA
- Bells ‘Two Hearted’
What style of beer is Pliny the Elder (Russian River Brewery)?
Double IPA
Recommend a quadrupel
- Trappistes Rochefort 10
- La Trappe Quadrupel
- Avery ‘The Reverend’
What is a cask ale?
unpasteurized and unfiltered beer left to develop in an unpressured cask
- develops gentle, natural carbonation
What is Germany’s top selling Helles Lager?
Paulaner Muncher Hell
Duvel and Delirium Tremens are both what style of beer and what is their hallmark flavor profile?
Belgian Golden Strong Ale
- spicy and peppery
- floral
- clean
- high avb
What style of beer is most closely related to Oktoberfest?
marzen (lager)
What style of beer is Ayinger Celebrador?
doppelbock
Recommend a German Pilsner style beer
- Prima Pils (Victory Brewing Co)
- Radeberger Pilsner
Recommend an amber ale
- Far Tire Amber
- Caldera ‘Ashland Amber’
- Summit ‘Horizon Red’
What style of beer is Negro Modelo?
Vienna lager
What is the regional beer style in Dusseldorf?
altbier
What are the 2 methods for achieving color without bitterness in schwartzbier?
- use dehusked malt (dials down toastiness)
- cold soak dark roasted malts (as opposed to boiling)
Recommend a kolsch
- Gaffel Kolsch
- Goose Island ‘Summertime’
List a barrel aged beer
- Fifty Fifty Brewing ‘Eclipse’
- Dogfish Head ‘Palo Santo Marron’
- Odell ‘Woodcut Series’
Recommend a dubbel
- Westmalle dubbel
- La Trappe dubbel
- St Feuillen ‘Brune’
- Chimay Rouge
Recommend a tripel
- Chimay Tripel
- Westmalle Tripel
- Bostals ‘Tripel Karmelit’
- Unibroue ‘La Fin du Monde’
What style of beer is known as a wee heavy?
Scotch ale (min 6% abv)
Recommend a Brown ale
- Newcastle Brown Ale
- Kona Brewing ‘Koko Brown’
- Ithica ‘Nut Brown’
Recommend an Oktoberfest beer
- Hacker Pschorr Oktoberfest
- Brooklyn Brewery Oktoberfest
- Ayinger Oktoberfest-Marzen
What is the key ingredient in milk stout?
lactose
What style of beer is Old Rasputin?
Imperial Stout
Duchesse de Bourgogne and Rodenbach are both what style of beer?
Flanders/Flemish Red Ale
Recommend a saison
- Saison Dupont
- St Feuillen Saison
- Brooklyn Brewery ‘Sorachi Ace’
- Jolly Pumpkin ‘Bam Biere’
Pilsner Urquell and Lagunitas Pils are both what style of beer?
Czech Pilsner
What defines a California Common?
warm fermented lager
What role do hops play in beer production?
- add flavor and bitterness
- act as a preservative to prevent bacteria
- enhance beers head retention
What is the typical abv of an IPA?
5.5-7.5%
Old Speckled Hen and Bass are both what style of beer?
English Pale Ale
What brewer claims to have released the first maibock?
Hofbrahaus (1614)
List 2 American Pale Ales
- Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
- Maine Beer Co ‘Pepper Ale’
- Abita ‘Restoration Pale’
- Ale Asylum ‘Hopalicious’
- Firestone Walker ‘Pale 31’
What style of beer is New Glarus ‘Spotted Cow?’
Cream ale
Humulus Lupulus is better known as what?
hops plant
What is the oldest Trappist brewery in the world?
Rochefort (1595)
What does SRM mean in reference to beer?
Standard Reference Measurement (color chart)
What is the typical abv of lagers and pilsners?
4-5.5%
What defines a Kolsch and where does it originate?
cool fermented ale
- Cologne, Germany
What 3 ingredients were authorized for beer production according to the 1516 Bavarian Purity Law?
- barley
- hops
- water
Describe a Gueuze
- blend of one and two year old lambics
- fermentation continues in bottle
What is a Mars lambic?
mild lambic produced by re-using the malt from a previous lambic
What is a Faro beer?
- blend of lambic and lighter beer
- Belgian candy sugar added for sweetness
What legally defines a wheat beer?
- produced with min 60% what instead of barley (German law requires min 50%)
- usually cloudy and unfiltered
What is the difference between a wheat beer and a white beer?
A white beer is a wheat beer with the addition of orange peel and/or coriander
What is a Kristall Weizen?
A clear, filtered wheat beer
List 2 active Trappist breweries outside Belgium
- De Koningshoeven / La Trappe (Netherlands)
- Abdij Maria Toevlucht (Netherlands)
- Tre Fontane (Italy)
- Mount Saint Bernard (England)
- San Pedro de Cardena (Spain)
What is Kvass?
Russian rye beer usually fermented with fruit juices
What town became famous for the production of Rauchbier (smoked beer)?
Bamberg (Franken, germany)
What is the only DO in Spain for cider?
Sidra de Asturias DO
What are the 4 AOPs in France for cider?
- Contentin AOP
- Cournouaille AOP
- Domfront AOP
- Pays d’Auge AOP
What are the 4 PGIs in England for cider?
- Herefordshire Cider PGI
- Worcester Cider PGI
- Gouchestershire Cider PGI
- Traditional Welsh Cider PGI
What is the min abv for Sidra de Asturias?
5%
What are the sweetness designations for Sidra de Asturias?
- Dry < 30 g/L
- Semi Dry 30-50 g/L
- Sweet > 50 g/L
What percentage of the assemblage of Poire Domfront must be from white pears?
40%
Orchards in Pays d’Auge must be what percentage bitter apple varieties?
70%
What is the term for a mead and cider blend?
cyser
What is the term for mead made with the addition of herbs and spices?
Metheglin
What is the term for mead made with the addition of grains (usually malted barley)?
Braggot
Describe the process of making beer
- barley is milled to convert it to grist (crushed barley)
- grist is steeped in hot water in a mash tun to convert starch to fermentable sugar
- lauter tun allows grains to be separated from liquid (now called wort)
- hot water is trickled through grains to get remaining sugars (sparging)
- wort is boiled, hops usually added ad this point
- hopped wort is spun to remove hops and proteins
- wort is cooled
- wort is transferred to fermentation tanks, yeast is added
- beer is cooled for conditioning (allowing of yeast to settle and flavors to mature)
- beer is filtered
What are the two methods of carbonating a beer?
- forced carbonation
- bottle conditioning
What is the optimum serving temp for beer?
34 - 39 degrees - mass produced lagers
40 - 45 degrees - pilsner, kolsch, wheat beer
45 - 50 degrees - pale ale, IPA, porter, stout
50 - 55 degrees - strong ales, sour ale, bitters
55 - 60 degrees - barley wine, double IPA, imperial stout
Describe a Dunkel
German lager made with dark roasted barley
Where does the Bock (Billy Goat) style originate?
Einbeck, Germany (malted lager)
- Einbecker Bock
- Breckenridge Brewery Pandora’s Bock
What is the standard abv of a Doppelbock?
7-10%
Recommend a Marzen
- Hacker Pschorr Oktoberfest
- Brooklyn Brewery Oktoberfest
What are the hallmarks of a Vienna lager?
- lager brewed with paler malts
- restrained bitterness
- slight malty sweetness
Describe schwartzbier?
- black lager that drinks cleanly and has roasty notes without the bitterness that accompanies stouts and porters
What are the hallmarks of a Czech Pilsner?
- pale malt
- aromatic hop strain (saaz)
- clear, aromatic, light bodied, not “hoppy”
What brewery was the first in Germany to specialize in pilsner?
Radeberger
What style of beer is Anchor Steam?
California Common
Gaffel and Goose Island Summertime are both what style of beer?
Kolsch
What is a cream ale?
pale malted ale fermented and conditioned at cooler temps (like a kolsch) using a mix of ale and lager yeast
What is an altbier?
- dark ale fermented with a special yeast strain adapted to cooler temps
- extended cold conditioning
- fruity and clean
What is the main difference between an altbier and a kolsch?
both are cool fermented and conditioned ales, but kolsch relies on pale malt while altbier relies on dark malts
What is a dunkelweizen?
Dark wheat beer - use of dark kilned malts
What is a weizenbock?
cool fermented wheat beer that is bottle conditioned
What are the hallmarks of a Berliner Weisse?
- low alcohol
- use of lactobacillus
- tart
- wheat beer
What is a Gose?
beer brewed with salt
Allagash White and Three Floyds Gumballhead are both what style of beer/
American Wheat Ale
What is the main difference between a hefeweizen and a whitbier?
- hefeweizens are unfilteres
- whitbier/ white beer is filtered
What is the difference between a pale ale and a bitter?
Traditionally, a bitter was draft and a pale ale was bottled
What are the 3 broad categories of Bitter Ale?
Standard/Ordinary Bitter
- max 4.1% abv
- light and drinkable
Best/Regular Bitter
- 4.2 - 4.7% abv
Premium/Strong Bitter
- also known as Extra Special Bitter in the US (trademarked in UK)
- above 4.8% abv
- malty and hoppy
what is the name of Great Lakes Brewing east coast IPA?
Commodore Perry
In what year was the International Trappist Association formed?
1997
What are the requirements to use the Authentic Trappist Product label?
- brewery must be within monastery and be brewed by or under the supervision of monks
- brewing cannot be the main focus of the monastery
- brewing income can cover the monks living and maintenance costs but profit must be donated to charity
- quality must be monitored by the Assoc.
Who produces Dark Lord Imperial Stout?
Three Floyds
Describe Eisbock
- a bock (lager) is frozen and ice crystals removed to remove water and concentrate the beer
What are the main characteristics of a Scotch ale?
- 6-10% abv
- strong ale, very malty
- not overly hopped
- generally smoky (can be smoked)
What is the highest selling beer in the world?
Snow lager
What is a Grisette?
very low alcohol saison
- given to miners during the industrial revolution
What are the reasons to boil wort?
- deepen color and flavor
- sterilize/stabilize
- evaporate excess water
What are the four noble hops?
- saaz
- spalt
- hollertau
- tettnanger (most used)
Kingfisher is the most sold beer in what country?
India
What is the oldest brewery in the world?
Weihenstephaner (est 1040)
What is the name for the wild yeast strain in lambics?
brettanomyces lambicus
What are the flavors for Berliner Weisse syrup?
- raspberry
- woodruff flower
What is the name for the tall, thin traditional kolsch glass?
stange
In what country would you find Stinlager?
New Zealand