Beer

Beer

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

Contributors in Beer

Beer

The ancestor of the American Light Lager style, as it existed prior to Prohibition. More flavour and body than an American Light Lager — closer to its Continental Pilsner roots, but with an American ...

Closed fermentation

Beverages; Beer

The practise of fermenting beer in a closed fermenter, where the CO2 produced during fermentation is allowed to escape, but outside air is prevented from contacting the fermenting wort.

Continental pilsner

Beverages; Beer

Generic term used to refer to various variations on the Pilsner style of beer, brewed in Europe.

Braggot

Beverages; Beer

A mead in which some of the fermentable sugars come from malt; or, a mixture of ale and mead.

Flaked maize

Beverages; Beer

Corn which has been run between heated rollers. The rollers break the kernels open, and the heat gelatinizes the starch, allowing flaked maize to be added directly to the mash without pre-cooking it.

First wort hopping

Beverages; Beer

The practise of adding hops to the kettle during lautering, allowing the hops to steep in the hot wort prior to the boil. Proponents of this procedure claim that it provides a fine hop flavour and ...

Finishing hops

Beverages; Beer

Hops which are intended to add hop flavours (other than bitterness) and aromas to beer. Finishing hops are added near (or even after) the end of the boil, to avoid boiling off the volatile aromatic ...