Beer

Beer

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

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Alcohol

Beverages; Beer

Ethyl alcohol or ethanol. An intoxicating by-product of fermentation, caused by yeast acting on sugars in the malt.

The measure of the amount of as a percentage of total volume. This is the worldwide standard for measuring the alcohol content in beer. The United States traditionally used alcohol by weight (ABW) to ...

Alcohol By Weight

Beverages; Beer

The measure of the weight of alcohol as a percentage of total weight of the liquid. This standard is being used much less frequently nowadays. To convert ABW to ABV, multiply the ABW x 1.25. ...

Alcohol content

Beverages; Beer

Alcohol content is expressed as a percentage of volume or weight.

Ale

Beverages; Beer

Ales are bears made with "top-fermenting" strains of yeast which means that the yeast ferments at the top of the fermentation tank. This yeast ferments the beer quickly, giving it a sweet, full ...

All-Malt

Beverages; Beer

Often used in exchange for the term "craft brew". It refers to beers made from 100 percent malted barley, malted wheat or malted rye. In contrast, non-craft brews may contain up to 60 percent rice or ...

Alpha Acid

Beverages; Beer

A resin contained in the hop plant that is responsible for the bitterness in beer. When purchasing hops, the alpha acid content of the hops will be given as a percentage and printed on the package ...