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Beer jargon buster There’s a lot of jargon, buzzwords and terminology floating around the beery world. Beer Hawk is here to help make sense of it all BEERAdmittedly, not jargon, but we know it is the oldest and most widely consumed alcoholic drink in the world. Brewed using cereal grains and fermented. MALTThink of malt as the base of beer. It provides the sugar for alcohol, but also impacts on the colour and flavour. HOPSHops are responsible for preservative qualities, imparting bitterness and giving flavour and aroma. YEASTA group of organisms that ferment sugars to alcohol and carbon dioxide. It also can add flavours to a beer. BOTTLE-CONDITIONEDNaturally carbonated in the the bottle because of an additional fermentation from sugar added in packaging. ABVThis is the measurement of alcohol in a solution described as ‘alcohol by volume’, in percentage terms.
Beer jargon buster
There’s a lot of jargon, buzzwords and terminology floating around the beery world. Beer Hawk is here to help make sense of it all
BEERAdmittedly, not jargon, but we know it is the oldest and most widely consumed alcoholic drink in the world. Brewed using cereal grains and fermented.
MALTThink of malt as the base of beer. It provides the sugar for alcohol, but also impacts on the colour and flavour.
HOPSHops are responsible for preservative qualities, imparting bitterness and giving flavour and aroma.
YEASTA group of organisms that ferment sugars to alcohol and carbon dioxide. It also can add flavours to a beer.
BOTTLE-CONDITIONEDNaturally carbonated in the the bottle because of an additional fermentation from sugar added in packaging.
ABVThis is the measurement of alcohol in a solution described as ‘alcohol by volume’, in percentage terms.
ALEA term usually describing some beers fermented with a top fermenting yeast at warm temperatures.
LAGERLager simply means ‘cold stored’. A bottom fermenting yeast in cool temperatures is used. Can be any colour.
DRY HOPPINGThe addition of hops after fermentation. It is used to add loads of aroma to beers but no bitterness.
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