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Beer

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

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beet sugar

Beverages; Beer

A refined sugar which is produced from the juice of the sugar beet plant.  One of the two forms of common table sugar (the other one being cane sugar). May be used as a source of fermentable sugars ...

beer engine

Beverages; Beer

Device traditionally used to serve cask-conditioned British ales (real ale).  Instead of pushing the beer out of the cask or keg under pressure, a beer engine draws (pulls) the beer out, by means of ...

berliner weisse

Beverages; Beer

A characteristically sour style of German wheat beer, fermented with a mix of “normal” yeast and lactic acid bacteria.

best bitter

Beverages; Beer

One of the “grades” of English Bitter, intermediate in strength between Ordinary Bitter and Strong Bitter.

check valve

Beverages; Beer

A one-way valve, commonly used on the gas outlet of a CO2 regulator to prevent beer from flowing back into the regulator and damaging it.

chocolate malt

Beverages; Beer

A dark roasted malt, commonly used in dark beers to impart color, and a roasted, chocolate/coffee character.  

classic american pilsner

Beverages; Beer

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

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