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What is Fruit Lambic?
This style is commonly brewed with raspberries, cherries, peaches, or apples.
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What are carbon dioxide and nitrogen?
These 2 gasses are commonly used to dispense beer.
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What is the three tiered system?
The U.S. system of beer brewers, wholesalers (or distributors) and retailers.
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What is a snifter?
The name of this glass used for strong ales like barley wines
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What is diacetyl?
The common off flavour that smells like butter or butterscotch.
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What is Flander's Red?
This style is described as close to a fine red wine.
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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 Federal Excise taxes?
These taxes are paid by breweries to the U.S. government.
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What is 6 months?
Kept refrigerated, bottled beer can last this long.
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What is phenolic?
Smoky
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What is Gueze?
This style is a sour Belgian beer that is very effervescent.
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What is 3° C?
This is the standard temperature of a draft system.
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What is 0-10?
Lambic, Gueze and Fruit Lambic have IBUs in this range.
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What is a nonic pint?
This traditional English glassware.
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What is light-struck or skunked?
The off flavour caused by the breakdown of iso alpha acids by sunlight.
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What is Oud Bruin
The darkest of the 5 categories of beer we studied, with an SRM of 15-22.
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What is a nitro (stout) faucet?
Very dark beers are sometimes dispensed into a glass using one of these devices.
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What is date coding, or best-by date?
This label addendum lets you know how fresh packaged beer is.
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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 isoamyl acetate?
This compound smells like bananas.
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What are Lambic, Gueze, and Fruit Lambic?
These three styles are traditionally brewed in Brussels and the Senne Valley.
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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 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 Lactobacillus and Pediococcus?
These two common bacteria caused infected beers to sour with age.
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What is acetaldehyde?
Green apples
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