What are the categories of beer?
Ales Lager Lambics Wheat beer Trappist beer Other beer (biere de garde, California common, kölsch, kvass, rauchbier, saison)
What is an ale beer give 3 examples
Fermentation is fast and warm, producing richly flavoured beers
Pale ale Belgian ale Trappist ale Abbey beer Stout Porter
Lager
Fermentation is slow and cool, producing delicately flavoured beer
Pilsner
Bock (incl dopplebock, Eisbock, maibock)
Pale lager
Lambics beer
Spontaneously fermented over a long period of tim, aged hops provide antibacterial qualities, not bitterness
Gueuze
Kriek
Wheat beers
Produced with up to 60% wheat instead of barley (German lows requires min 50%) usually cloudy and unfiltered
Hefe weizen
Dunkel
White beer
Trappist beers
Produced in various styles Patersbier Enkel Dubbel Tripel Quadrupel
What is kölsch?
Kölsch is an ale from Cologne fermented at cooler than normal temperatures