Beer

Beer

Any alcoholic beverage brewed by slow fermentation from malted cereal grain and flavoured with hops.

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Aromatic malt

Beverages; Beer

A medium coloured specialty malt which has been kilned at temperatures higher than for a pale (base) malt, but lower than for a roasted malt.

Attenuation

Beverages; Beer

The degree to which the sugars in the wort have been converted to alcohol and CO2.

Single-celled organisms which are generally undesirable in beer. Bacterial contamination can result in sour, musty, or vegetable-like flavours in beer, and can cause bottles to gush when opened, or ...

Base malt

Beverages; Beer

In all-grain brewing, the malt which provides the enzymes for starch conversion, and most of the fermentable sugars. Base malt is always fairly light in color, because the high kilning temperatures ...