Beer

Beer

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

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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 ...

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.