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A beer sommelier tapping a barrel for a taste at Nebraska Brewing Company. A beer sommelier, also known as a cicerone in the United States, [1] [2] [3] is a trained professional, working in the hospitality and alcoholic beverage industry, who specializes in the service and knowledge of beer, similar to a traditional wine sommelier.
The OE (Original Extract) is often referred to as the "size" of the beer and is, in Europe, often printed on the label as Stammwürze or sometimes just as a percent. In the Czech Republic, for example, common descriptions are "10 degree beers", "12 degree beers" which refers to the gravity in Plato of the wort before the fermentation.
A hydrometer floating in a test jar of wort, where the specific gravity reading is approximately 1.050. The principal factors that characterize beer are bitterness, the variety of flavours present in the beverage and their intensity, alcohol content, and colour. Standards for those characteristics allow a more objective and uniform ...
Earlier this week, researchers at the University of California, Davis, published a study showing that beer contains a large amount of dietary silicon. The mineral, which previous studies have ...
Cicerone is an archaic term for a guide. Cicerone may refer also to: Places. Cicerone, ... a professional beer server; Bear-leader (guide), ...
Beer fermenting at a brewery. Zymology, also known as zymurgy, [a] is an applied science that studies the biochemical process of fermentation and its practical uses. Common topics include the selection of fermenting yeast and bacteria species and their use in brewing, wine making, fermenting milk, and the making of other fermented foods.
The off-flavour in beer, such as a cardboard or green apple taste, is often associated with the appearance of staling aldehydes. The Strecker aldehydes responsible for the flavor change are formed during storage of the beers. Philip Wietstock et al. performed experiments to test what causes the formation of Strecker aldehydes during storage.
Beer tasting is the experience of sampling beer. Depending on how the tasting is designed, it can be a way to learn more about the history, ingredients and production of beer as well as different beer styles, hops, yeast and beer presentation. A common way is to analyze the appearance, smell and taste of the beer.