BEER 101
Q: What are the 4 main ingredients used to brew beer?
A: Water, Malts, Hops, Yeast
Q: What is a Stout?
A: A style to recommend to someone who drinks their coffee black.
What is the lightest beer style on the hoppy beer spectrum?
Pale Ales (could argue session IPAs)
What would you recommend if someone likes white wine?
Ciders
A: The flavor of this style is associated with balsamic vinegar.
Flemish Ale
Q: What are common hop aromas?
A: Fruity, Citrusy, Grassy, Earthy, Floral, Piney
Q: What is a Marzen, Dark lager, or Amber lager?
A: A style to recommend to someone who loves Werther’s toffee candy.
Q: What are hops and how would you describe their flavor?
A: This main ingredient can vary greatly in flavor. Some are more bitter than others and some are fruitier.
What would you recommend if someone likes sweet/tart drinks?
Lambic
A: If someone enjoys margaritas, they’ll love this style. (use your head a llittle)
Gose
Q: What are common malt aromas?
A: Toffee, Caramel, Coffee, Chocolate, Bready
Q: What is a porter or a milk stout?
A: A style to recommend to someone who enjoys vanilla lattes.
Q: What are IBU’s / International Bitterness Units?
A: The standard for measuring the amount of hops in a beer.
This style of beer has flavors and aromas of banana and clove.
Hefeweizen
A: A style to recommend to someone who loves lemonade. (use your head)
Berlinner Weisse
What do session, imperial/double, helles, and dry hopped mean?
light in alcohol and could argue taste, ABV 8% and over and more intense flavors, light in color, hops added after the boil that add little to the taste but a lot to the aroma.
Where did porters and stouts originate from? (Country)
UK
How would you describe a beer that says it is dry hopped?
It has a hoppy aroma but barely in the taste
A style that IS NOT a beer and is brewed with honey
Mead
A: A process where a beer is inoculated with wild yeast.
Spontaneous Fermentation or open air fermentation
Q: What is yeast?
A: This ingredient converts fermentable sugars in the wort into alcohol and carbon dioxide.
Q: What are patent malts?
A: Porters are brewed using these pale malts that are roasted until black in color.
How would you describe a double/ imperial IPA, and when would you recommend this beer?
A: A style to recommend for someone who likes some bitterness but needs sweetness to balance.
A: This style is NOT a beer but most are great recommendations for those who are gluten intolerant.
Cider
Where did the sour beer category originate?
Belgium and Germany