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What is Fruit Lambic?
This sour and fruity Belgian beer style comes in flavours such as cherry, raspberry, peach, and apple.
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What are carbon dioxide and nitrogen?
These two gases are commonly used to dispense draft beer.
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What is zero?
The amount of time most beer needs to age after it leaves the brewery.
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What is a Snifter?
This glass is used for strong ales like barley wine and is often associated with brandy.
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What is diacetyl?
Common compound in beer causing a butter or butterscotch aroma.
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What is Flander's red?
This Belgian beer styles is often described as like a fine red wine.
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What isa nitro (stout) faucet?
Very dark beers are sometimes dispensed into a glass using one of these devices.
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What is 6 months?
Bottled beer, kept refrigerated, can last this long.
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What is 6 months
Bottled beer, kept refrigerated, can last this long?
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What is DMS (dimethyl sulphate)?
Common compound in beer causing a cooked corn or vegetable aroma.
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What is Oud Bruin?
Of the styles Flander’s Red, Oud Bruin, Lambic, Gueze and Fruit lambic, this is the darkest beer with an SRM of 15-22.
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What is 3° C?
This is the standard temperature of a draft system.
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What is oxidation?
This aging process causes flavours of paper or wet cardboard.
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What is a nonic pint?
The name of this traditional English glass.
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What is phenolic?
Smoky
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What is unsalted wheat?
Lambic, Gueze and Fruit lambic styles are brewed using this ingredient as 30-40% of the grist.
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What is a party pump?
Using this device to dispense beer reduces the flavour stability to less than one day.
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What are Lactobacillus and Pediococcus?
Two common bacteria that cause infected beer to sour with age.
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What is serving size?
Responsible servers adjust this based on the ABV of a beer.
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What is acetaldehyde?
Smells like green apple.
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What is Gueze?
This style is described as “A complex, pleasantly sour but balanced wild Belgian wheat beer that is highly carbonated and very refreshing”
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What is 45-60 days?
The length of time you can serve unpasteurized, draft beer if kept refrigerated.
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What is light-struck or skunking?
The breakdown of iso-alpha acids caused by sunlight.
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What is lacing?
Concentric rings of dry foam on the inside of a glass.
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What is isoamyl acetate?
This compound causes a banana aroma.
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