BEVERAGE MANAGEMENT Flashcards
Water facts (name 4):
- 70.9% of the world is covered with water
- By 2025, 1.8 billion people will have no water whatsoever
- 70% of the water reserve is used in agriculture
- 0.8% of the earth’s water is drinkable
- Nearly 450 million people in 29 countries face severe water shortage
- 2.7 million tons of plastic are used annually for water bottles
- 86% of the single-use water bottles (US) end up as litter or in landfills
Tap water
Drawn from large resevoirs, lakes, rivers or aquifers.
Treated in order to ensure compliance with chemical, microbial and other safety standards.
Neutral taste.
Mineral water
Water collected directly from an underground spring that rises to the surface.
It contains a trace of mineral and mineral salts
The name of the source must be clearly stated on the label
The name of the source is more important than the producers brand
It must be bottled at the source
Rain –> bottle of mineral water = 30 years
Taste & Minerals: hard
calcium & magnesium
Taste & Minerals: mineral
hydrogen carbonate
Taste & Minerals: acidic
CO2
Taste & Minerals: acidic
CO2
Taste & Minerals: acidic
CO2
Taste & Minerals: acidic
CO2
Taste & Minerals: acidic
CO2
Taste & Minerals: acidic
CO2
Taste & Minerals: Salt
sodium, calcium, chloride
Taste & Minerals: bitter
sulphates
Measures in hospitality to save water:
- Don’t sell bottles water
- Only supply water on request
- Water catchment and re-use
Soft drink facts (name 2):
Soft refers to the contrast with hard liquor
First used in Italy ‘limonata’
Ingredients soft drinks:
- Water (tap or source)
- Fruit juice, flavorings, extracts
- Sugars and sweeteners
- CO2
Spirit facts:
- Distilled beverages are called spirits
- Consists 15% or more alcohol through distillation
Aperitif:
distilled beverage you drink before dinner
digestif:
A distilled beverage you drink after dinner
Alcohol production:
- Raw materials
- Fermentation
- Distillation
Why do we distill?
- To give the liquid a higher alcohol percentage
- To seperate the alcohol from the other liquids
- To get impurities out of the liquids
How to create alcohol?
By fermenting raw materials into sugars
–> Sugar containing materials, like apple, plums, cherries, grapes
–> Raw starch containing materials, like barley, rye, corn, wheat, rice
Starch (zetmeel) containing materials:
Barley (gerst), rye (rogge), corn (mais), wheat (tarwe), rice (rijst)
Fermentation process:
- Starch is steeped and heated until it starts growing. The enzymes will transform the starch into sugar.
- Yeast process will start, yeast eats up the sugar: alcohol and CO2 are created
- The more alcohol and CO2 are created, the less sugar there is for the yeast to feed on
- At 14-18% ABV the alcohol level become toxic for the yeast
- To get a higher ABV, you have to physically separate alcohol from water. Using distilling
Alcohol boiling point:
78.5 degrees Celcius
2 types of distilling:
- Pot still
- Column still (no cleaning required between batches)
Distilled spirit:
A distilled liquor obtained by distillation from wine or other fermented fruit or plant juice of from starchy material that has first been brewed.
Cognac: VS
VS – very special, at least two years old or three star
Cognac: VSOP
Very Superior Old Pale – at least four years, includes ‘‘old’’ or ‘‘reserve’’
Cognac: XO
'’Extra Old’’ – at least 6 years old, includes Napoleon or Old Reserve
Cognac: XO
'’Extra Old’’ – at least 6 years old, includes Napoleon or Old Reserve
Cognac: XO
'’Extra Old’’ – at least 6 years old, includes Napoleon or Old Reserve
Cognac: XO
'’Extra Old’’ – at least 6 years old, includes Napoleon or Old Reserve
Why do we need sugar containing material for an alcoholic product?
To create the alcohol
What does the term Old Genever mean?
That the jenever is made from at least 15% malt wine, but not more than 20 grams of sugar per liter
What gives us the flavor and characteristic to gin?
The use of Juniper berries
From which cereal grains can you make gin?
Corn, rye, barley and wheat
For scottisch whiskey they use?
Barley
How often does whiskey needs to be distilled?
2 times
How could you describe bourbon the best?
Made of a mash up of at least 51% corn, distilled to 40% ABV, aged in uncharred oak barrels, aging is brief usually 6 months, during the aging the whiskey picks up color and flavor