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  English beer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In addition cask conditioned beer rather than bottled beer is still common, with the beer finishing its maturing in casks in the cellar of the pub rather than at the brewery.
Modern-day pubs keep their beer constantly at this temperature, but originally beer would be served at the temperature of the cellar in which it was stored.
Where harsher flavours do exist in beer (most notably in those brewed in Yorkshire), these are traditionally mitigated by serving the beer through a hand pump fitted with a sparkler, a device that mixes air with the beer, oxidising it slightly and softening the flavour.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/English_beer   (390 words)

  
 English Beer
Today, the most popular pub beer is bitter, a hoppy ale drawn up by hand pumps from kegs in the cellar and traditionally offered in pint glasses (but half-pints are readily available, too).
Finally, drinkers who prefer a lighter, crisper, cleaner-tasting beer — and their numbers have increased in Britain in recent years — ask for a lager, which is what most Americans are accustomed to.
Beer that is stored in its cask or vat until free of sediment and crystal clear.
www.hospitalityguild.com /GuidePro/Beer/English_Beer.htm   (871 words)

  
 Dragon's Milk: English October Beer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Strong beer, brilliant as topaz, sweet as dew, and dripping with the perfume of hops, was for centuries a revered icon of English culture.
Beer was allotted according to employment or familial status on the estates.
As William Harrison observed in 1587, "The beer that is used at noblemen's tables in their fixed and standing houses is commonly of a year old, or peradventure of two year's running or more, but this is not general." This pattern continued as long as the house-breweries did.
www.allaboutbeer.com /homebrew/23.4-octoberbeer.html   (1456 words)

  
 Britain: Campaigning for Ale
In the 1700s claret (red wine of Bordeaux) was as much in evidence in English taverns as beer, and for a brief, unfortunate period gin was much favored by the masses in London until punitive taxes forced the poor to improve their drinking habits.
Such beer is hand pumped, by pulling on a large tap handle at the bar to bring the beer up from a cooled cellar where casks of unfiltered, unpasteurized, natural beer reside peacefully.
Beyond the artisanal beers there is an increasing selection of canned and bottled English ales available to the U.S. consumer, most of which are of good quality when fresh, and represent a contrast to the styles of beer available from U.S. micros.
www.tastings.com /beer/england.html   (707 words)

  
 Welsh Pubs, Beer Making, Wye Fishing and More
Which is his loss because English beer from the pub tap is as good as is brewed in the world.
Mexican beer is excellent, but when the Mexicans still were trying to figure out why their pulque killed that little worm, and the Danes were wearing dead furbearers and whopping each other with knobby sticks, the English were hoisting a pint at the King's Inn and griping about the Argentinian soccer team.
In America, Olympia Beer used to brag of its "tumwater," whatever that is, while Leinenkuegel's, a Wisconsin beer, hoots that it is brewed from the water of the Big Eddy Spring.
www.finetravel.com /europe/englandbritishisles/pubs.htm   (1572 words)

  
 Beer -- History -- Ingredients -- Types of Beer
Because beer is composed mainly of water, the source of the water and its characteristics have an important effect on the character of the beer.
Some bottle-conditioned beers have a yeast sediment at the bottom of the bottle that may be undesirable, while beer tapped directly from a keg or cask may require special treatment.
A beer's style is a label that describes the overall flavour and often the origin of a beer, according to a system that has evolved by trial and error over many centuries.
www.edinformatics.com /inventions_inventors/beer.htm   (2247 words)

  
 Recreating Medieval English Ales
Not only was beer significantly different some three hundred years ago, in 1700, in comparison to today, ale was significantly different around 1300 than either ale or beer was in 1600.
Bennett suggests that the longevity of beer, especially in comparison to that of ale, is due to the addition of hops.
I hasten to caution that an extract-based recreation of a late-period English beer won't be as accurate as an all-grain recreation using appropriately period mashing techniques.
www-2.cs.cmu.edu /~pwp/tofi/medieval_english_ale.html   (10652 words)

  
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These beers are excellent when made by American craft brew producers, but are generally thought to have not surpassed their English ancestral origins.
Imperial: A denotation initially used to describe beers that were popular in the czarist states, it has since become and is now a term used to designate beers that are very big in their flavor profile.
These are the beers that many modern lagers owe their allegiance to, but are crafted with fine ingredients.
www.oregon.com /beer/beer_terms.cfm   (1319 words)

  
 Shelton Brothers: Brakspear Bitter
And beer drinkers all over England know that when you find yourself drinking all night (Oh, blast, not again!), this is exactly the stuff you want in your pint glass.
When everything is in balance, the rich, bready flavor of English malt mates with the complex yeast that English breweries favor to produce a spectrum of fruity, earthy flavors to thrill the connoisseur.
It’s a beer that you can turn to time and again over the course of a long night without losing the flow of the conversation.
www.sheltonbrothers.com /beers/beerProfile.asp?BeerID=17   (279 words)

  
 Representative Phil English (PA21) - English Beer Tax Rollback Gains Support in Congress
Legislation seeking to rollback the federal excise tax on beer, introduced this spring by U.S. Rep. Phil English, has gained support by a majority in Congress.
English’s bill will decrease the tax on beer by 50 percent to $9 a barrel, down from the $18 a barrel levy implemented in 1991.
The federal excise tax was implemented on luxury items, including beer, in 1991 to help pay down the federal deficit.
www.house.gov /english/press2002/Beer52802.html   (226 words)

  
 Beer List - 2002 Classic City Brew Fest, Athens, Georgia
A festive-occasion beer, brown ale is one of the oldest English brewing styles, mentioned in literature in the 16th century.
Beers brewed at the old brewery have a round, nutty flavor because of the Yorkshire square system of fermentation that uses large slate squares to line the inside of the fermentation tanks.
• Spaten Franziskaner Hefeweizen is a top-fermented, unfiltered, bottle-conditioned wheat beer.
www.classiccitybrew.com /ccbf99list.html   (8646 words)

  
 English beer measures and the liberal French state. | Samizdata.net
English beer is usually (but not always) weaker than some continental drinks, and lends itself to larger glasses.
Beer in bottles can come in any size, because given that bottled beer is imported from all sorts of places, any other rule would be silly.
A standard pint of beer in the US is 16 oz (which I think is the usual pint in the "english" system, which is the one thing that we did not get rid of along with King George).
www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/004299.html   (5008 words)

  
 ..::...Vores ØL...::..
The recipe and the whole brand of Our Beer is published under a Creative Commons license, which basically means that anyone can use our recipe to brew the beer or to create a derivative of our recipe.
This requirement is to keep the beer "free" so everyone has the freedom to improve the recipe based on the work of others.
We think that our open source beer is a nice twist on this quote, and we think it is interesting to see if our beer grows stronger, out in the free, and perhaps one day becomes the Linux of beers.
www.voresoel.dk /main.php?id=70   (589 words)

  
 Celebrator Feb/Mar 2003: Unraveling the Myths of English Beer
This is somewhat true of the beers served from a handpump, which is a device that sort of siphons the beer from a cask (Americans usually call it a keg).
Such beer is referred to as "real ale." The beer does draw a good head, but it's definitely considerably less carbonated than the average American brew and will take some getting used to.
Dorber determines when the beer is ready to be served by counting how many seconds it takes for the beer to bubble out of the opening after wiping it clean.
celebrator.com /200302/london.html   (1290 words)

  
 A 1503 English Beer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
This is one of the earlier hard data references to brewing beer that I have been able to find, and forms the basis for this attempt.
Since I have no idea exactly what strains were used, I chose to use English Fuggle hops because they are lower in the acids that cause bitterness in beer than a lot of the currently grown hops, and impart a pleasing aroma and flavour to my beer.
The method I used to brew this beer was taken from Markham, as it is the clearest written instructions, and close the earliest.
www.nwlink.com /~badger/1503.html   (2972 words)

  
 Best English Wine - Beer
The beer is hopped at four different stages of the brewing process to get the full spectrum of aroma and flavour available from this noble hop variety.
At the end of the 17th century, the weekly allowance for pupils of all ages at one English school was two bottles a day.
Beer was a good deal safer and more palatable than the available drinking water which was often drawn from polluted rivers.
www.bestenglishwine.co.uk /categoryfast.cfm?catid=36   (494 words)

  
 NPR : Beer Tasting: The World's Best, and Priciest
With the help of beer expert Michael Jackson, Michele Norris and Robert Siegel take stock, and taste, of some of the world's finest (and most expensive) beers.
This Belgian beer has a raspberry and cherry flavor, with a hint of vanilla.
Delivered in a brew-kettle shaped copper bottle, this beer is one of the world's strongest (25 percent alcohol), but with a fine sherry-like taste.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4651323   (412 words)

  
 Sierra Nevada Specialty Drafts
This wonderfully mild, pale-colored ale is brewed using Maris Otter English malt, Perle hops, and Styrian Goldings hops from Slovenia.
Brewed using imported English malts and hops, this medium-bodied, copper-colored beer is a great rendition of the popular English beer style.
This unfiltered ale is fermented with special wheat beer yeast imparting a clove-like spiciness of vanilla and nutmeg, combined with a fruitiness reminiscent of bananas or apples.
www.sierranevada.com /beers/specialtydrafts.html   (260 words)

  
 All About Beer Magazine-Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The Brewers Association has reported that craft beer is the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. beverage alcohol industry for the second year in a row.
Craft beer sales in 2005 were up 9.9 percent from 2004 with 7,112,886 31-gallon barrels sold.
CAMRA is actively promoting these beer styles with cartoon characters representing old ales, stouts and porters on beer maats, posters and hand pumps.
www.allaboutbeer.com /aabmhome.html   (190 words)

  
 SQUATTERS - Good For What Ales You.®   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
English Golding and Fuggle hops produce delicate bitterness and aroma.
This unfiltered wheat beer is brewed with German yeast and tettnanger hops and has delicate citrus flavors.
This classic IPA has a golden copper color, generous hop flavors and aromas and the maltiness of premium English barley - perfectly balanced by alcohol at 6% by volume.
www.squatters.com /beers   (319 words)

  
 A 1503 English Beer
Unusually for a farmer at that time, he was educated at Oxford University and had his own hop gardens in which he tested his observations.
One reason to create a large amount to begin with is to ferment your beer using the yeast you want, before it gets infected with something else.
What I did was drain my fermented and un-carbonated beer into a 5 gallon stainless steel soda canister that I have adapted for my use.
badger.cx /brewing/1503.html   (2972 words)

  
 Campaign for Real Ale
Also known as "cask conditioned" beer; the fundamental distinction between real and other ales is that the yeast is still present in the container from which the beer is served, although it will have settled to the bottom and is not poured into the glass.
Because the yeast is still alive, the process of fermentation continues in the cask or bottle on the way to the consumer ensuring a fresh and natural taste.
CAMRA is calling on its 84,000 members and all beer lovers to support the campaign to keep the brewery open by sending postcards which condemn the closure to Greene King, or by signing the petition.
www.camra.org.uk   (531 words)

  
 BEER
The History of Beer and Beer in America by brewer Paula Weber.
If you don't know what all these types of beer are, then look here for the answers.
Regardless of your opinion of their beer, the history of the brewery and the German immigrants who founded it, its beautiful architecture and a gallery of photos, the sheer magnitude of the production and the many other entertainment and philanthropic aspects of AB make this a link worth visiting.
www.serve.com /shea/bier.htm   (427 words)

  
 English Beer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The English love fine ale and here at Islander we've got a fantastic range of beers straight from England.
Each bottle is manufactured using the finest hops and barley and we've got the most popular brands too.
If you want to enjoy quality beer at a great price, you've come to the right place.
www.islander.biz /html/englishbeer-.html   (91 words)

  
 Beer - Wikimedia Commons
English: A beer is any variety of Alcoholic beverages produced by the fermentation of starchy material derived from grains or other plant sources.
La Trappe Dubbel, La Trappe Tripel, La Trappe Quadrupel, trappist beers (Nederlands).
Picture of a beer mug with the Pilsner Urquell logo.
commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Beer   (295 words)

  
 Pittsfield Brew Works: Micro Brewed Beers: 34 Depot Street Pittsfield Massachusetts
Our Beers are made right here at Pittsfield Brew Works, by Christine and Bill for your enjoyment.
Light on the palette with a touch of hops to add to the delicate balance of this beer.
Naturally carbonated, poured from our Traditional English Beer Engine, it will take you back to the old world.
www.pittsfieldbrewworks.com /beer.htm   (266 words)

  
 English Beer Batter Recipe | Recipezaar
Let beer stand at room temperature until flat.
Refrigerate egg whites; beat together egg yolks, beer, butter or oil, salt and pepper; whisk into flour to make a smooth batter; refrigerate batter 3-12 hours.
When ready to fry fish (I use cod or halibut) pieces, bring egg whites to room temperature then beat them until stiff; fold beaten egg whites gently into beer batter.
www.recipezaar.com /170415   (329 words)

  
 WWW Virtual Library: Beer & Brewing - Publications, Organizations, Collectors, Education
Organizations is a collection of beer and brewing groups.
OLSKRIBENTERNA, The Swedish Guild Of Beerwriters (English or Swedish)
The Society for the Preservation of Beers from the Wood (S.P.B.W.)
www.beerinfo.com /vlib/publishers.html   (144 words)

  
 beer - English-Italian Dictionary - WordReference.com
Discussioni nei forum nel cui titolo è presente la parola 'beer':
Any Mountain, Any Snow, Any Beer, Any Time
Ask a question yourself./Poni tu stesso una domanda.
www.wordreference.com /enit/beer   (44 words)

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