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November 13th, 2007

Porter

Porter is a kind of strong, dark-colour beer that is made with malts (dark malts in particular) and special kind of yeast. And there were some historians’ accounts that the original name of beer is porter.

Porter has been made popular in London during the 18th century since the beer can be produced quickly and can be brewed by almost everybody evident by the number of microbreweries in London during that time. Porter was also one of the beers of choice in the United States during that time but breweries saw a decline in its production on the succeeding years.

However, porter was seen to have made a revival for the past 15 years since macro and microbreweries alike are starting to produce such beer due in part, to its low production cost, great sweet taste and fast to produce and taste can be from strong (bitter), medium to sweet.

Strong porter, known as stout, was seen to be very dark due to the concentration of malt in it hence making it more concentrated than a regular porter. Among porter’s popular brand are Fuller’s London Porter, Anchor Porter by Anchor Brewing Co. and London Porter by Arcadia and Samuel Smith’s, The Famous Taddy Porter.

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November 6th, 2007

Hefeweizen

Germany has the second largest number of breweries in the world with more than 1300 registered breweries, right behind the United States’ 1,500 breweries. Germans are notorious in terms of beer consumption and are the worlds top quality producer of beers.

Hefeweizen is just one of the most popular beers in the region and is known due to its marked streaks or indistinct masses of yeasts in it. Hefeweizen is literally translated as ‘yeast wheat’ since the word hefe would mean ‘yeast’ in German and the word ‘weizen’ means wheat in that region.

The quality of Hefeweizen production gives the beer its cloudy look since the remaining yeasts that are used to ferment the wheat during the production are not removed or filtered. The yeast then stays in the beer and gives the beer its cloudy appearance every time you pour it on a bottle or container. Perhaps, one may see that during Oktoberfest shown on TV or any type of advertising program.

Hefeweizen are somewhat sweet in taste and sometimes infused with other types of yeast that alters the white beer’s distinct taste. Due to its nature, the Germans usually call Hefeweizen “weissbier mit hefe” or white beer with yeast.

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October 30th, 2007

Light Lager

Light lager, like the premium lager, also undergoes the same brewing techniques but light lager differs in the amount of alcohol and calories contained in it. Due to lager’s high alcohol content and caloric content of other beers produced on the same technique, light lager was manufactured to give option to beer consumers who wants to have a beer variety with less alcohol and low in calorie.

Rice, cereals or corn are just some of the ingredients incorporated in the production of light lager in order to neutralize just some of the bitterness of taste among premium lagers due to its rigid fermentation process and high amount of hops extract in it which gives its bitter taste.

Some breweries use 100% malt for the production of light lager in order to balance the bitterness, alcohol content and or sweetness of a premium lager beer. This adds more flavour but not aroma, to the light lager and therefore “kills” the bitterness brought about by the incorporation of hops extract during the initial fermentation process.

Alcohol content for a usual premium lager beer is around 6% to 7% but light lager beer cuts that into half (usually around 2.5% to 3%). Countries in the European region have more flavorful light lager beers than Breweries in North America and this same reason gave light lager beer more success in its production and has managed to stay for more than 200 years now.

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October 28th, 2007

Beer Styles

Beer has been the most popular alcoholic beverage of all time. In fact, it is the oldest with records from China dating back 5000 years ago. During the 1900s, America alone has around 2000 independent beer-producing industries but only around 20 of them remained in operation today.

History also records details that master brewers were mostly women and people who worked at beer breweries were respected men and women of the society back in time. There were hundreds to thousand kinds of beer and to date more and more variety is being produced due to research and existing technology. Almost every type of food is fermented to produce an alcohol out of a certain foodstuff which is quite fascinating, too.

There are a couple of beers around and all of them undergo the basic process of fermentation in order to extract alcohol out of foodstuffs. Mead or honey beer for example is made from honey, porter out of malt and Hefeweizen (kind of German beer) out of wheat.

Many are just variants of existing beers, with slight alteration on contents, fermentation or distillation process. Beers have differing alcohol content and can be popular in one state and not in another or very famous in all countries around the globe. We’ll be taking a look at all of them as time goes by here at this Blog.

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