Beer

Beer

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

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closed fermentation

Beverages; Beer

The practice 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.

brown malt

Beverages; Beer

A medium-dark roasted malt, not as dark as chocolate or black malt.

caramel malt

Beverages; Beer

Malt which has been “mashed in the husk”, by being held at mash temperatures while still damp, then kilned (dried). The temperature at which the kilning is done determines the degree of ...