Classification On The Life Blood Of Collegiate Living: Beer.
...day than an ice cold beer? How about drinking a cold one with some friends at a local bar after a hard day's work, sounds satisfying doesn't it? Beer has been around for hundreds years and will be around for hundreds more. A beer is any variety of alcoholic beverages produced by the fermentation of starchy material derived from grains or other plant sources. The production of beer and some other alcoholic beverages is referred to as brewing. Almost every culture has their own tradition and their own take on beer, thus producing many different delicious styles and scrumptious variations.
Simply put, a beer style is a label given to a beer that describes its overall character and often times its origin. It's a name badge that has been procured over many centuries of brewing, trial and error, marketing, and consumer acceptance. There are many different types of beer, each of which is said to belong to a particular style. A beer's style is a label that describes the overall flavor and often the origin of a beer, according to a system that has evolved by trial and error over many centuries. According to the type of yeast that is used in the beer's fermentation process, most beer styles fall into one of two large families: ale or lager. Beers that blend the characteristics of ales and lagers are referred to as hybrids.
An ale is any beer that is brewed using only top-fermenting yeasts, and typically at higher temperatures than lager yeast. Because ale yeasts cannot fully ferment some sugars, they produce esters along with alcohol, and the result is a more flavorful beer with a slightly "flowery" or "fruity" aroma resembling but not limited to apple, pear, pineapple, grass, hay, plum or prune. Stylistic differences among ales are more varied than those found among lagers, and
many ale styles are difficult to categorize....
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