BEERS & CIDERS

Question 1

What ingredients are used to make beer?

Answer 1

Beer is made from

water
malt
hops
yeast

malt is is germinated barley (48-72 hours)
STARCH IN GRAIN CONVERTED TO SUGAR

Question 2

What methods and equipment are used to make beer?

Answer 2

1 grain germinate

2 grain are dried with hot air in the kiln

3 malt is “cracked” in the mill

4 hot water added 65-66C making Wort

5 boiling wort for 13 hours with sugar and hops in a kettle/copper

6 cooling to 59-61 C

7 yeast Saccharomyces cerevisae added, fermenting for about seven days

(for lager, s. carlsbergensis is added, a bottom fermentation yeast, working at lower temperatures, takes longer time)

8 storage tank 3-21 days or in a

9 cask (draught beer)

10 pasteurization, bottling or kegging

Question 3

What is mash-tun?

Answer 3

An insulated chamber where grains and water are mixed to create the wort

Question 4

What is wort?

Answer 4

The pre-fermented liquid you get after boiling the malt in the mash-tun

Question 5

What types of hops are used?

Answer 5

Citra 160
Mosaic 135
Simcoe 89
Amarillo 68
Centennial 55
Cascade 45
Columbus 42
El Dorado 40
Chinook 38

Question 6

Name five different beer types

Answer 6

Ales = fast and warm fermentation, richly flavoured fx Brown, pale, trappist, stut porter

Lager = slow and cool fermentation, delicate flavours fx pilsner, bock, black, munich helles, pale lager

Lambics = spontaneaously fermented over long period of time fx geuze, kriek

Wheat beers = up to 60% wheat instead of barley, typically cloudy, unfiltered fx
Hefe-Weizen

Trappist incl patersbier, enkel, dubbel, tripel, quadrupel fx Chimay, Rochefort, Westmalle, Mariawald

Other types are
Kölsh from Cologne, DE
Kvass from Russia
Rauchbier from DE
Saison from Belgium

Question 7

What are the conditioning practices in beer making?

Answer 7

Pasteurisation = 72-82 C, 160-182 F

Keg =

Bottle =

Can =

Question 8

Explain the terms of venting, tapping, stillage

Answer 8

venting: ventillation system over the boiler ?
tapping : transferring beer onto bootles or kegs
stillage : a wooden contraption that slightly raises the cask, so yeast can accumulate at the bottom, and the served beer runs clear

Question 9

What apple types are used in cider making? What pears?

Answer 9

McIntosch
Golden Delicious
Goldrush
Honeycrisp
Cortland
Idared
Jonagold
Granny Smith
Gala
Fuji

Blakeney red perry pear (from Blakeney near Gloucester, UK)

Question 10

What types of cider are there?

Answer 10

Cider is fermented apple juice (max 25% pear juice)

Sweet
Bittersweet
Bitter
Acidic

Main producing countries:

United Kingdom (bitter)
France (sweeter)
Spain (acidic)
USA (flavoured)
Scandinavia (craft-cider)

Question 11

Mention some good food and beer pairings

Answer 11

Pale lager, blonde ales + salads, chickens, grilled seafood

IPA, amber ale + burgers, grilled cheese

Irish red, brown ale + pork, BBQ

Porter, stout + beef, meatloaf

Question 12

What beer types exists?

Answer 12

pale lager
blonde ale
hefeweizen
pale ale / IPA
amber ale
irish red ale
brown ale
porter
stout

Question 13

What are some Belgian beer specialities?

Answer 13

Session
Belgian
Trippel, Quadruppel
Lambic