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Beer Notes Flashcards

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Hops

ingredients that provides it that?

Greatly influences the?

Hops are the flower..

A

backbone & bitterness

the taste & aroma of a beer

of humulus = wolf plant

Hops = preservative, bitterness & flavour

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Malt

3 steps :

For many specialty malts, 2 other steps

Most brewing malt is made from?

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  • steeping, germinating, & kilning
  • stewing &/or roasting

barley & wheat

Malt = Sugar, colour & flavour

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4 ingredients in beer

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Malt
Hops
Yeast
Water

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Mash

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Porridge like mixture of ground cereal grain (grist) & temperature controlled brewing water (often called liquor).

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Wort

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aqueous extract made from grain
intended for fermentation by yeast into beer

Yeast = alcohol & flavour

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How is Beer made?

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Malting 
Mashing
Laundering
Wort boiled with hops
Add Yeast
Fermentation
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Bottom fermentation

What temp? And why!

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Lower temp 5c-10c, causing the yeast to work less vigorously & create carbon dioxide more slowly

This results in less turbulence in the beer& yeast precipitating early life cycle

Yeast = alcohol & flavour

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Lager

The name lager comes from the German verb ???, which means ???

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Lagern store.

Lager = cooler / bottom fermentation, crispier & cleaner body

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Top fermentation

What temp?

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Generally associated with ales

16c or higher

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Ales

-Back in the day it was referred to as

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-beers from England

Ale = warmer, top fermentation, fruitier & rounder body

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Stock ale

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  • 1 of the 3 tradition British strong, fruity ales

- The other 2 are Old Ale & Barley Wine

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IPA

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Characterized by its high alcohol & hops

Popular in British India

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English Pale Ale

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Gold to Bronze in colour
4.5% - 5.5% ABV
Derived from IPA
Has a noticeable hop bitterness, (30-45 IBU)

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American Pale Ale

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  • One of the 1st Americanized styles. 1980

- Using American ingredients to emulate the English Pale Ale

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Wheat Malt

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  • The 2nd most common malted grain after barley malt
  • German wheat beer must contain at least 50% wheat malt
  • American style usually contains 10% - 35%
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Weissbier

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Classic wheat beer of Bavaria & 1 of Germany’s greatest & most distinctive beer styles

  • Means white beer in German
  • Outside of Germany it is known as a hefeweizen, literally “yeast wheat” packaged unfiltered & made with at least 50% wheat
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Stout

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Category of warm fermented ale

Distinguished by its dark colour & distinct roasted coffee character

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Imperial Stout

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  • Among the richest & strongest of beer styles
  • Originally brewed in London as an “extra stout” porter for export to the Baltic countries & Russia
  • Once brewed for Czarnia Catherine the Great
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Pilsner

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Pale, Golden Lager

Originated in Pilsen, Czech Republic 1838

Initiation pilsners today account for 95% of global beer market

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Kolsch

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  • Top fermented local beer styles from Cologne, Germany
  • Lightly fruity yeast note in aroma & taste, as well as pleasant hoppy bitterness
  • Dates back to 874 AD
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Altbier

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1 of the few indigenous German ale styles, along with the blondes & hefeweizens

Alt means “old” in reference in the old style of brewing before cold fermented lagers

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Bock

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Strong beer w typical 6.5% ABV
Mainly bottom fermented

Originated in lower Saxton, Germany

22
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IBU - International Bitterness Units

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International agreed upon standard for measuring bitterness in beer

23
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1516

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April 23rd 1516 Barvarian Duke issued the beer purity law.

Stated all beer must be made from barley, hops & water

It is now German law & is the oldest food & safety regulation out there!!

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ABV

A

Alcohol by volume

Standard world wide

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Malt

=3

A

Sugar
colour
flavour

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Hops

=3

A

flavour
preservative
bitterness

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Yeast

=2

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Alcohol

Flavour

28
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Ale

2 things

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Warmer/top fermentation

Fruitier & rounder body

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Lager

2 things

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Cooler/bottom fermentation

Crisper & leaner body

30
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What is the difference from an ale & a lager

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the type of yeast used to ferment the wort into beer

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Happy Hour
Glass
Pint
Stein
Flight
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$3.68
$5.25
$10.50
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