British & Irish Beer Styles Flashcards

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A ~3.5% abv draught pale ale consumed in British pubs.

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Standard Bitter

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Dark ale consumed by London working classes circa 1750:

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Brown Porter

*porters carry stuff = working class. Three porter styles mid-1700s, export, American style

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Best known Irish beer style made with roast barley:

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Dry Stout

Roast barley is used in stouts. There are 6 styles of stout. Dry stouts are Irish.

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4
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Lower gravity ales denoted as 60/ or 70/ are known as what sort of ale?

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Scottish Ales - also known as shilling ales.

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What are shilling ales?

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Scottish ales named for the duty paid per hogshead. The price was based on strength.
Light = 60/ under 3.5%
Heavy = 70/ between 3.5 -4%
Export = 80/ between 4 and 5.5%
Wee Heavy = 90/ over 6.0%
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Sub-style of stout made in England using lactose

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Sweet stout.

Lactose is a milk sugar. Stouts made with lactose are also known as Milk Stout or Cream Stout.

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Style name used for the strongest stouts:

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Russian Imperial Stout

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Nickname for a strong Scotch Ale:

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Wee Heavy

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9
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In modern times, style name for stouts made for routine export:

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Foreign Extra Stout

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10
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Modern Irish Style that is not a stout:

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Irish Red Ale

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Well-hopped and pale British ale style created for export but became popular domestically in the mid 1800s:

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English India Pale Ale

Keywords: well hopped, pale, export.

There are three IPA styles. English IPA was created for export to India.

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A draught pale ale with a bit more flavor than ordinary but still generally less than 4%:

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Best Bitters

Three styles of English Pale Ale. Standard/Ordinary, Special/Best/Premium, and Extra Special Bitters. The level above ordinary is best.

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13
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Ale of more than 5% abv some or all of which is held in wood vessels for six months or longer before blending and packaging:

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Old Ale

Keywords: aged + blended

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14
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A beer that contains no roast or black malts and is often the strongest of English Ales:

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English Barleywine

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15
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Style of dark ale rare in Britain except for a Newcastle export well-known in the US:

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Northern English Brown

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