Beer 101
Water, Malts, Hops, Yeast
What are the 4 main ingredients used to brew beer?
A style to recommend to someone who drinks their coffee black.
What is a Stout?
The lightest style in the hoppy spectrum.
What are Pale Ales?
A style to recommend to someone who enjoys white wine.
What is a Cider?
The flavor of this style is associated with balsamic vinegar.
What is a Flemish Ale?
Fruity, Citrusy, Grassy, Earthy, Floral, Piney
What are common hop aromas?
A style to recommend to someone who loves Werther’s toffee candy.
What is a Marzen, Dark lager, or Amber lager?
This main ingredient can vary greatly in flavor. Some are more bitter than others and some are fruitier.
What are hops?
A style to recommend to someone who likes sweet/tart drinks
What is a Lambic?
If someone enjoys margaritas, they’ll love this style.
What is a Gose?
Toffee, Caramel, Coffee, Chocolate, Bready
What are common malt aromas?
Porters are brewed using these pale malts that are roasted until black in color.
What are patent malts?
The standard for measuring the amount of hops in a beer.
What are IBU’s / International Bitterness Units?
This style of Wheat beer has aromas of Banana/Clove.
What is a Hefeweizen?
A style to recommend to someone who loves lemonade.
What is a Berliner Weisse?
What are ales?
Beers that are top fermented and brewed at warmer temperatures.
A style to recommend to someone who enjoys vanilla lattes.
What is a porter or a milk stout?
Dry-hopping adds this to beer, but not flavor.
What is aroma?
This style is NOT a beer and brewed using honey to make it sweet.
What is a Mead?
A process where a beer is inoculated with wild yeast.
What is Spontaneous Fermentation?
This ingredient converts fermentable sugars in the wort into alcohol and carbon dioxide.
What is yeast?
Porters and Stouts originated in this region.
What is the UK?
A style to recommend for someone who likes some bitterness but needs sweetness to balance.
What is a Double/Imperial IPA?
This style is NOT a beer but most are great recommendations for those who are gluten intolerant.
What is a cider?
This category of beer originated in Belgium / Germany.
What are Sours?