1 Introduction to Beer and Styles Flashcards
What is beer?
Alcoholic beverage made by fermenting sugars that come from malted grains (mostly malted barley) typically flavoured with hops
Beer’s main ingredients?
- Malt (malted grains)
- Water
- Hops
- Yeast
Name all beer production steps.
- Milling
- Mashing
- Mash separation
- Worth boiling and main hop additions
- Worth clarification
- Worth cooling
- Fermentation
- Maturation
- Carbonation (OPTIONAL)
- Filtration (OPTIONAL)
- Packaging
- Pasteurisation (OPTIONAL)
Which beer production steps are OPTIONAL?
- Carbonation
- Filtration
- Pasteurisation
Beer types?
- Ales
- Lagers
- Mixed fermentation beers
Ale beer yeast strain?
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Lager beer yeast strain?
Saccharomyces pastorianus
Mixed fermentation type of beer is made using ….. ?
Yeast and bacteria
Name the beer styles?
Explain what they are?
- Malt driven style
- Hop driven style
- Yeast driven style
- Mixed fermentation style
Set of characteristics linked to a name (achieved with particular combination of ingredients and brewing yechniques)
BJCP
Beer Judge Certification Program
(founded 1985 in USA)
What is craft beer?
What is craft beer?
Movement born in reaction to lack of beer diversity in North America.
Movement to return artisanal approach to making beer.