1 Introduction to Beer and Styles

Question 1

What is beer?

Answer 1

Alcoholic beverage made by fermenting sugars that come from malted grains (mostly malted barley) typically flavoured with hops

Question 2

Beer’s main ingredients?

Answer 2

1. Malt (malted grains)
2. Water
3. Hops
4. Yeast

Question 3

Name all beer production steps.

Answer 3

1. Milling
2. Mashing
3. Mash separation
4. Worth boiling and main hop additions
5. Worth clarification
6. Worth cooling
7. Fermentation
8. Maturation
9. Carbonation (OPTIONAL)
10. Filtration (OPTIONAL)
11. Packaging
12. Pasteurisation (OPTIONAL)

Question 4

Which beer production steps are OPTIONAL?

Answer 4

1. Carbonation
2. Filtration
3. Pasteurisation

Question 5

Beer types?

Answer 5

1. Ales
2. Lagers
3. Mixed fermentation beers

Question 6

Ale beer yeast strain?

Answer 6

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Question 7

Lager beer yeast strain?

Answer 7

Saccharomyces pastorianus

Question 8

Mixed fermentation type of beer is made using ….. ?

Answer 8

Yeast and bacteria

Question 9

Name the beer styles?

Explain what they are?

Answer 9

1. Malt driven style
2. Hop driven style
3. Yeast driven style
4. Mixed fermentation style

Set of characteristics linked to a name (achieved with particular combination of ingredients and brewing yechniques)

Question 10

BJCP

Answer 10

Beer Judge Certification Program
(founded 1985 in USA)

Question 11

What is craft beer?

Question 12

What is craft beer?

Answer 12

Movement born in reaction to lack of beer diversity in North America.
Movement to return artisanal approach to making beer.