Daily Archives: 26.06.2012

How to distinguish quality beer?

Beer foam

Foam is the hallmark of beer. It can be used to determine the quality of the drink. If the foam is thin, with a lot of bubbles, red, and unsightly, then this beer is not first-class. The foam of good beer is compact and monolithic, without bubbles and completely white. Pour the beer into a large glass or tumbler. Excellent beer should have a foam height of at least 4 cm and keep it for at least 4 minutes. If the foam is lower or disappears without a trace in a shorter period of time, it means that it is not quite excellent. Try blowing lightly on the foam. If the foam disappears, then the beer is bad, if it «bends», then it is good. And one more tip. Place a coin on top of the foam layer. It does not sink – another indicator of good quality. In addition, the foam should «stick» to the walls. If after you drink beer, traces of foam remain on the walls of the glass, everything is fine - you drank beer. If there are no traces, then you should think about whether this is really real beer.

How to drink good beer?

Sometimes it is not easy to evaluate the taste of an intoxicating drink, but it is even more difficult to track the quality of production. This article presents the official beer indicators, as well as folk methods for determining quality.

Beer brewing

There is no beer in the world that could be made without malt, hops, yeast and water. Where the last two components come from is probably clear to everyone. They are very important, because the quality of the water on which the beer will be brewed depends on what its taste will be. Malt does not exist in its pure form in nature; it is obtained from cereal crops, such as rye, barley, wheat.