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How does the malting process work?

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Grains are steeped to germinate, allowed to sprout until one inch length producing amylase (starch into sugar), then roasted

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What 2 sugars are produced when malting grains?

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Maltose and Dextrin

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Define Cask Ale

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unpasteurized draught beer

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What types of yeast produce lambic beers?

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Brettanomyces bruxellensis
Brettanomyces Lambicus
Saccharomyces Cerivisae

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Kolsch

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(Cologne) - ale fermented as a lager

EXAMPLES: 
Fruh, 
Reissdorf, 
Dom, 
Krankshaft (Metropolitan), 
Sierra Nevada
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Pilsner

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bottom-fermented, cold conditioned sometimes for several months

EXAMPLES: 
Pilsner Urquell, 
Budvar, 
Beck’s, 
Bitburger, 
Stiegl, 
Lapin Kulta (Lapland - Finland)
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Saison

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light colored summer beer

bottle conditioned, yeast character with high carbonation, might have spices

from Hanau province in Belgium

EXAMPLES: 
Dupont (Belge), 
Ommegang Hennepin (NY), 
Allagash, 
BFM (SUISSE - Brasserie Franche Montagnes)
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Weissbeer

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min. 50% wheat (German law) up to 60%
cloudy
clove and banana flavor

EXAMPLES: 
Schneider Weisse, 
Maisel’s Weisse, 
Weihenstephaner, 
Schlafly

SERVICE :
“Schwenk” the yeast in the bottom of the bottle and pour it on top of the foam

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Witbier

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usually 40% unmalted wheat with coriander and orange peel

EXAMPLES: 
Hoegaarden (Belge), 
Allagash White, 
Blanche de Chambly (Unibroue), 
Hitachino Nest White Ale (Japan), 
Avery White Rascal (Boulder, CO)
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Geuze

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mix of 1 year and 2-3 year old lambics, refermented with aged hops [finishes in the bottle]

EXAMPLES: 
Hanssens, 
Girardin, 
Boon, 
Cantillon, 
Lindemann’s
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Farro lambic

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lambic brewed with lighter beer and candy sugar

EXAMPLES:
Lindeman’s,
Girardin,
3 Fonteinen

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Kriek lambic

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refermented with sour morello cherries

EXAMPLES: Cantillon, Lindemann’s

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Mars lambic

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mild lambic brewed with used malt, fermented in bottle

EXAMPLES: Lindeman’s, Girardin, 3 Fonteinen

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Tripel

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Strong blonde brewed with candy sugar

EXAMPLES: 
Tripel Karmeliet, 
Chimay Tripel, 
Victory Golden Monkey (PA), 
Delirium Tremens
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Quad

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Rich and warming

EXAMPLES:
Westvleteren 12,
Rochefort 10,
St. Bernardus 12

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IPA

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EXAMPLES: 
Worthington White Shield (UK), 
Dogfish Head 90 Minute, 
Pliny, 
Lagunitas, 
Zombie Dust, 
Bell’s Two Hearted, 
Drake's
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Pale Ale

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EXAMPLES: 
Young’s Special London, 
De Ranke XX Bitter, 
Sierra Nevada, 
Smuttynose Shoals (NH), 
Drake’s, 
Off-Shoot,
Cooper’s (AUS), 
Little Creatures (AUS)
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Barleywine

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strong, rich, generously malted ale - medium hop and high alcohol (18th century england) - “Old Ale”

EXAMPLES:
Anchor Old Foghorn,
Sierra Nevada Bigfoot

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Dortmunder

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coal miner’s beer - deeper, maltier pilsner

EXAMPLES:
Dortmunder Export,
Dortmunder Gold (Great Lakes)

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Belgian Lager

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De Konink - local beer of Antwerp - served in a “bollekin” or “ball” with good amount of foam,

Jupiler (InBev) - from the town of Jupille near Liege - favorite brand of Belgians for everyday drinking

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Marzen/Festbier

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malty lager, brewed in the spring lagered in the summer

EXAMPLES:
Ayinger,
Spaten,
Sierra Nevada Festbier

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Bock (Doppelbock/Maibock)

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strong, dark lager with malty profile (traditionally brewed in einbeck, “bock” = billygoat)

“liquid bread” for the fasting mocks - doppel

EXAMPLES:
Sam Adams Double Bock,
Bell’s Consecrator

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Dunkel

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Dark lager - weizenbock - brewed with darker malts

EXAMPLES:
Erdinger,
Schneider Aventinus,
Hacker Pschorr

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Schwarzbier - black lager

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Herold Black Beer (Prague)

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Vienna Style Lager
copper to reddish brown, low to medium hop w/ notable toasted and malt character EXAMPLES: Stiegl, St. Georgen, Zippier
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Munich Helles
pale gold beer, rounder and fuller than light lager or pilsner with touch of sweetness and hop spice EXAMPLES: Spaten, Augustinerbrau Munchen
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Amber Lager
adapted from Vienna Lager ``` EXAMPLES: Sam Adams Boston Lager, Brooklyn Lager, Yeungling, Great Lakes Elliott Ness ```
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Berliner Weisse
high carbonation, oft unfiltered, yeast and lactic acid character - often brewed with fruit - little to no hop character - low in alcohol, maltiness, and bitterness ``` EXAMPLES: Weihenstephaner Kristall Weissbier, Schultheiss, Berliner Kindl Weiss, New Glarus, Firestone Bretta ```
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ESB
Fuller’s
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Gose
Goslar Germany - Goslar River salty water (brewed with salt and coriander) malted barley, malted wheat, no hops [brewed in Leipzig] EXAMPLES: Ritterguts, Offshoot Troublesome, Anderson Blood Orange Gose
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Kvass
rye-based Russian beer fermented with fruit juices
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Altbier
top-fermented at cool temperature - darker, slightly more hop-kissed than kolsch [brewed in Dusseldorf] EXAMPLES: Uerige, Schumacher, Diebels
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Rauschbier
smoked malt [produced in Bamberg (Franken)] ``` EXAMPLES: Schlenkerla, Rauchenfelser Steinlager, Moku Moku (Japan), Alaskan Smoked Porter ```
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Porter
``` EXAMPLES: Deschutes Black Butte, Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald (Cleveland), Zywiec Porter, Synebrychoff (Helsinki) ```
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Stout
``` EXAMPLES: Guinness, Murphy’s, Left Hand Milk Stout (Denver), Deschutes Obsidian, North Coast Old Rasputin, Asahi, Okhotsk (Japan), Dragon Stout (Jamaica), Lion Stout (Sri Lanka), Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout (Yorkshire) ```
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Rheinheitsgebot
Barley, Water, Hops - 1516
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Minimum % wheat in a Weissbeer
50%
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4 styles of wheat beer
``` Hefe Weizen, Dunkel (dark), Kristall Weizen (filtered to be clear), Weiss Bier - Weizen bock (lager), Berliner Weisse (carbonation and lactic), Gose ```
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What is wort?
Sugar rich liquid derived from malted grain
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What is grist?
cracked or ground malted grain
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type of yeast in an ale
s. cerivisae
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yeast in lager (bottom ferment)
s. pastorianus or carlsbergensis
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name a style of lager
``` german pils, bohemian pils, munich helles, bock, maibock, doppelbock, dortmunder ```
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beer made with spoilage bacteria (brett, pediococcus)
lambic, sour beer
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beer not traditionally made with hops
gruit ale - precursor to modern 2 Druids
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dry hopping
after the boil and fermentation - usually 3 different stages, more flavor from essential oils
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hop back
layer of fresh hop flowers in a chamber - also filter protein and hop solids
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abbey ale
made outside the walls of a trappist brewery
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3 producers of Trappist beer
``` Chimay, Westmalle, Orval, Achel (no more living monks), Westelvetren, Rochefort ```
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Sole Trappist Brewery in the USA
St. Joseph’s Abbey in Spencer, MA (2013)
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Most common hop strains in the USA
Cascade, Chinook, Centennial - (Citra, Simcoe, Mosaic, Fuggle, Kent Golding)
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Oldest continually operating brewery in the World?
Weihenstephaner est. 1040
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Name 2 lambic producers
Lindemans, Cantillon, Boon, Rodenbach (Flemish ale - similar to red wine)
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4 styles of Lambic
Geuze (1 year and 2-3 year old beer with aged hops), Mars (reused malt from previous ferment), Faro (mix of lambic and light beer, Belgian Candy sugar added), Fruit
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California Common
lager fermented at higher temperature
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Top selling beer in US
Bud Lite
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Who harvests the most hops in the USA?
Yakima Valley, WA
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Top selling beer in world
#1 Stella Artois, #2 Corona, #3 Heineken
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Function of Hops
Preservative, imparts bitterness to balance sweetness of malt, IBUs
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Amylase
enzyme that converts starch into maltose and dextrin
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What is sparging
Once the wort liquid is washed off the grains, you can rinse the grains with water to extract more
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wet-hopping
freshly gathered hops (hours), not dried - captures the most pure aromas
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Saint Bernardus
located in Watou - (formerly affiliated with St. Sixtus Monastery) modelled on Westvleteren beers
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Orval
“Vallee d’Or” in the Ardennes forest, occupied by monks since 1010
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Dubbel and Tripel styles popularized by?
Westmalle
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What term is used more often than Quadruppel bier?
Grand Cru
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Youngest Trappist brewery?
Mount St Bernard (2018) - England
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Oldest Trappist brewery?
Achel - Belgium - (no longer any living monks) Trappist association founded in 1997
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11 Trappist breweries in production (?)
``` Chimay, Koenigshoefen (La Trappe), Westmalle, Orval, Rochefort, Westvleteren, Achel, Tre Fontane (Italy), Mount St. Bernard (UK), St. Joseph’s Abbey (USA - MA), Stift Engelszell (Austria) ```
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German law requires what % wheat instead of barley
50%
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Service temp for lager
48-52
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Service temp for ale
54-58
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Four Noble Hops
Saaz, Tuttnang, Hallertau, Nuremburg
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``` Skol, Tusker, Kronenbourg 1664, Moretti, Kingfisher, Snowbeer, Singha, Tiger beer, Hoegaarden, Red Stripe, Heineken ```
``` Brazil, Kenya, France, Italia, India, China, Thailand, Singapore, Belgium, Jamaica, Netherlands ```
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What is “keeving”?
a natural, traditional method of sweetening cider pectin gel traps nitrogen and is removed, starving the wild yeast. fermentation stops early leaving the natural sugars from the apples themselves. no sugar or sweetener is added. most common in French cidre bouché, not as common in UK commercial ciders
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Cider PDO’s from Spain
Sidra de Asturias (Trabanco, Fonciello), Euskal Sargadoa / Basque (Gurutzeta)
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Cider PDO’s from France
Pays d’Auge (Dupont), Poire Domfront (Fernand et Freres), Cornouaille (Manoir de Kinkiz), Cotentin (Herout)
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England ciders
Gloucestershire (Summer’s) Worcestershire (Knight’s) Herefordshire (Stowford Press)
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Welsh Cider
Black Dragon
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French Cider
Cidre de Normandie, Cidre de Bretagne
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Spanish Cider
Basque Cider (Isastegi, Astarbe, Zelaia, Txopinondo)
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German Cider
Hessiche Apfelwein (Muller)
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American Cider
Ace (Sonoma), Woodchuck (Vermont), Shacksbury (Vermont), Farnum Hill (New Hampshire)
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Australian Cider
Black Rat (Adelaide), Mercury (Tasmania)
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Largest cider producer in the world
Strongbow (Herefordshire, England)
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What is a Burton Ale?
London name for an “old ale” - strong, malty beer usually brewed in the winter months
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What is an Eisbock
Specialty of Kulmbach district in Bavaria A bock lager is frozen and the water ice removed to make a stronger beer
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How is cider pressed?
the cider is mashed and ground into an applesauce like texture and then poured onto forms covered in nylon. a stack of these forms is called "a cheese" and the mechanical pressing which presses down to release the juice is called a "wring"
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What varieties of apple are used for cider?
neutral, aromatic, astringent, tart
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The greater the difference between original gravity and final gravity...
The higher the alcohol and drier the beer style
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Fasting monks drank this style of beer, also known as "liquid bread"
Doppelbock
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What is Krausening?
A carbonation method traditional to Germany. Add actively fermenting wort to a fully fermented beer - providing sugar for secondary fermentation.
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What does SRM stand for?
Standard Reference Method Attenuation of light passing through 1 cm of beer ``` 2 -lager, pilsener, berliner weisse 3 -blonde ale 4 - weissbeer 6 - IPA 8 - saison 10 - ESB 17 - dark lager, marzen, amber 20 - bock, dunkel, brown 24 - porter, doppelbock 29 - stout 35 - baltic porter 40+ - russian imperial stout ```
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What is a hopback?
introducing fresh hops to a beer after the boil to retain fresh aromas
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What is a Grisette?
Belgian wheat beer - funky, sour and usually dry hopped or late hopped
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What is a coolship?
A large container for cooling wort
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How should you serve a Lambic beer?
LAMBIC in a TALL TUMBLER, pour out some of the sediment first. Then pour slowly in a continuous motion. KRIEK is served in a BRANDY GLASS. FRAMBOISE is served in a CHAMPAGNE FLUTE.

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