Beer Vocabulary
Abbey(Abbaye)
these ones are not actually made by monks but they have a very good quality that
tries to immitate the ones made in monasteries (Trappiste)
Ale these are beers of high brewing
(the yeast stays at the top during the brewing)
Bitter lots of hop in it (a lot of
tasty bitterness)
Bo(c)k it means that they are strong
beers (usually more than 6,25%) and they are low brewed
Brown Ale very popular Ale in south
England, it is dark and low in alcohol
Dark well, that 's what it is : dark
Doppelbock very strong beers, usually
more than 7,5%
Dortmunder low brewed beers, more rich
and less dry than Pils
Draft(Draught) beer from the barrel,
when we find one in bottle or can (Irish) it contains nitrogen (lots of foam)
Faro (Brussels) sweet Lambic
Framboise(Framboren) blackberry aroma
Gueuze (Belgium) contains fresh and old
Lambic 4,5-5,5% and strong fruit flavor
Hefe it means yeast in German, it is
not filtered and fogy
Hell(Heller) it means pale, blond in
German
Ice Beer Lager beers
which are freezed during brewing or ripening
India Pale Ale it 's a premium
copper-colored Ale
Kolsh gold-colored, high brewed, 4,3-5%
Kriek whole cherries are added during
brewing
Lager the basic beer of every house,
during brewing the yeast drops down
Lambic (wheat) it
is a special beer from Belgium (Senne), there is no yeast added but is brewed
naturally by fungi
Light not more than 2,5%
Munchener(Munchner) dark Lager
Oktoberfest beer brewed during March,
after ripening it is consumed during the Oktoberfest in Munich
Pils(Pils(e)ner) blond and dry hop beer
named after the famous Czech beer Pilsnen Urquell
Scotch Ale very dark
and strong beer with a barley taste
Schwarzbier black Lager with a
roasted-chocolate aroma
Selected Grains it means that other
cereals have been used (like rice or wheat) besides barley
Steam Beer it 's an American beer from
San Fransisco, brewed in high temperatures in large, shallow pots (something
like a Lager-Ale)
Stout black, Irish, bitter
Sur Lie there is yeast left in the
bottle for a second brew (mainly from Belgium)
Trappiste black, rich and strong - only
6 beers have the right to be labed as genuine monastery beers : 5 of these
monasteries are in Belgium (Chimay, Orval, Rochefort, Westmalle, Westveteren)
and 1 in Holland (Schaapskooi at Koningshoeven)
Tripel this name came from Holland and
is used for the strongest beer of every house
Trub it is a German word for the yeast
that remains inside the bottle
Ur(Urquell) it is a German word that
states the origin of the beer
Weisse(Weib)(Weissbier)(Weizenbier) it
is a German word for the beers made of wheat
White Ale(Witbier)(BiereBlanche) white
and made of wheat