Beer

Beer

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

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Beer

A vessel in which beer is placed after primary fermentation where the beer matures, clarifies and is naturally carbonated through secondary fermentation. Also called bright beer tank, serving tank ...

Dry Hopping

Beverages; Beer

The addition of dry hops during first or secondary fermentation or ageing beer to add a hoppy character to the beer without affecting the beers bitterness.

Enzymes

Beverages; Beer

Catalysts found naturally in grain. When heated in mash they convert the starches of the malted barley into maltose, a sugar used in solution and fermented to make beer.

Bung

Beverages; Beer

A wooden plug used in the hole in a keg or cask through which the keg or cask is filled and emptied. The hole may also be referred to as a bung or bunghole.

Caramel

Beverages; Beer

Sugar used to add colour and alcohol content to beer. It is often used in place of more expensive malted barley.

Dextrin

Beverages; Beer

The unfermentable carbohydrate produced by the enzymes in barley which gives the beer flavour and body.

Diacetyl

Beverages; Beer

A compound produced by yeast as a normal product of fermentation. Some levels of diacetyl are acceptable in some beer styles, while in others it should not be detected at all. Diacetly can be ...