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[1] [2] In medieval England, the term referred to a drink brewed without hops. [3] As with most beers, ale typically has a bittering agent to balance the malt and act as a preservative. Ale was originally bittered with gruit, a mixture of herbs or spices boiled in the wort before fermentation, before hops replaced gruit as the bittering agent. [4]
Barm, also called ale yeast, [1] is the foam or scum formed on the top of a fermenting liquid, such as beer, wine, [2] or feedstock for spirits or industrial ethanol distillation. It is used to leaven bread , or set up fermentation in a new batch of liquor.
Cask ale handpumps. Beer has been brewed in England for thousands of years. As a beer brewing country, it is known for top fermented cask beer (also called real ale) which finishes maturing in the cellar of the pub rather than at the brewery and is served with only natural carbonation.
Old English: Beore 'beer'. In early forms of English and in the Scandinavian languages, the usual word for beer was the word whose Modern English form is ale. [1] The modern word beer comes into present-day English from Old English bēor, itself from Common Germanic, it is found throughout the West Germanic and North Germanic dialects (modern Dutch and German bier, Old Norse bjórr).
Thomas Joseph Cantrell, an Irish apothecary and surgeon, manufactured the first ginger ale in Belfast, Ireland, in the 1850s.This was the older golden style fermented ginger ale, dark coloured, generally sweet to taste, with a strong ginger spice flavour, [clarification needed] which he marketed through local beverage manufacturer Grattan and Company. [1]
Strength between 4.2% and 4.7% abv. In the United Kingdom bitter above 4.2% abv accounted for just 2.9% of pub sales in 2003. [5] The disappearance of weaker bitters from some brewers' rosters means "best" bitter is actually the weakest in the range. Premium or strong bitter Strength of 4.8% abv and over. Golden ale
Feel free to serve this two-ingredient combo with whatever crackers or bread you have on hand. I've served it with toasted baguette slices, classic buttery crackers, and grainy whole-wheat crackers.
Malt liquor is a strong lager or ale in which sugar, corn or other adjuncts are added to the malted barley to boost the total amount of fermentable sugars in the wort. This increases the final alcohol concentration without creating a heavier or sweeter taste. Also, it is not heavily hopped, so it is not very bitter.