Beer List Flashcards
What beers are on draft? (Know 5 for the test)
tap 1 Belgian Table Beer 5.1% tap 2 Vienna Lager 5.9% tap 4 Cranberry Sour 4.8% tap 6 Beerios 7.4% tap 7 Funky Saison 5.3% tap 8 Handsome Devil 7% tap 9 Posh IPA 6.8% BB Quad 12.5% What Child is This? 8.6% Hefegeyser 5.1%
Hop Syllabus
American Pale Ale
Citrus and pine flavors of American hop varieties
Low to medium malt
Some caramel and toast notes
Refectory Ale
Light, sessionable ale and the traditional “lunch” beer of hard-working monks! Classic bubblegum and clovey/peppery yeast characteristics
Handsome Devil
American Wild Ale
Aromas of Toffee, lactic acidity, brett funkiness, and toasty maltiness with a tart, dry finish
Beerios
Displays dark malt flavors like chocolate and roast without intense acrid or burnt flavors of stout. Robust Porter with chocolate, honey, bready, and dried fruit. Characteristics with a full, creamy mouthfeel.
Rocket to Marzen
Classic celebratory lager of Bavaria! Aromas/flavors are rich toasted malt characters (bread, toast, and bread crust) and white grape yeast esters.
History: Marzen beers were once brewed strong for long summer storage. In 1810 Marzen was used to celebrate the royal wedding that has become the modern-day Oktoberfest.
Lake Spray
Mixed Culture Ale with Cranberries. The next generation of Speciation’s house cultures fermented with cranberries! Punchy lactic acidity with subtle cranberry notes. (Speciation is a small, Grand Rapids brewery that opened in Jan. 2017. They collaborated with our brewery students and provided the yeast strain for this beer)
Saisonic Boom!
Funky Saison
Complex brettanomyces and peppery phenol aromas married with barrel oak. Subtle lactic sourness with a dry, grainy finish
Posh India Pale Ale
Herbaceous and grassy hop characters, toasty, biscuit malt character and bready yeast notes. Lighter bodied, dry, bitter finish.
Beer Barrel FarQuad
Barrel Aged Quadruple. Belgian Quadrupel (Quad) Inspired by the Trappist brewers of Belgium, a Quadrupel is a Belgian-style ale of great strength with even bolder flavor compared to its sister styles Dubbel and Tripel. Our BB FarQuad is rich, full bodied with vanilla and spice.
What Child Is This?
Nitro Imperial Stout and Amber Ale blend.
Imperial Stouts show intense roasted flavors of coffee and chocolate with medium to high hop bitterness.
Amber ales have the evident citrus and pine hoppiness of American Pale Ales with a richer malt base that includes dark caramel and toasted flavors.
Hefeguyser
Big banana aromas and flavors with subtle clove and bready after taste. Medium bodied with a creamy moutfeel.
Berrycuda
Mixed Culture Sour
Blueberry, raspberry, lactic sour