The beer is a most popular beverage worldwide, is a drink alcohol, distilled no bitter taste, manufactured in barley or other cereals, The starch is fermented in water.
There are a variety of beers, different shades based on their type of processing and ingredients, and even colorSince beer generally has a color amber shades from yellow to black.
The beer is a carbonated drink that contains CO2 dissolved in saturation occurs in bubbles and most times is usually covered with foam, its appearance varies the cloudy lens and its alcoholic strength can reach up to 30%. but what is more common than beer between 3 and 9% vol.
Classification of beer:
Several criteria for the classification of beers, associations and experts created in 1970 an agreement to classify them according to the following criteria themselves and their creators.
Ingredients:
Usually can indicate with which grain has been prepared beer when it is not only barley malt, beer wheat, oats, etc.. In most cases it is a mixture of barley and grain indicated in that case. What is not generally indicates the kind of hops used, but there is a particular style that is defined by the use of hops in particular: Pilsener beer or Pils, which had to be made with barley and hops Moravia Zatec of Bohemia. Also called Pils some imitations German made with barley and hops are very similar to the Pils original.
Appearance:
Many beers are ranked based on their color: Beer amber, red, blonde, black.
But other beers are classified by transparency: Cloudy beer (or translucent) the translucency of the beer may be due to protein suspension, or grain from being little or no been filtered and lead to yeast in suspension.
The dark beers are called this way for the use that is preparing it for toast or burnt malts. Some particularly robust black beers are called Stout (Which robust means in English)
Procedures:
Some beers are defined by a procedure including for example the Rauchbier (Smoked beer) is made with roasted malts that have been letting the wood smoke permeates the grain, or Dampfbier Steambeer is defined by the use of steam machinery in development. These are styles of preparation but are defined in this way.
Some German beers were served hot in winter and also used to wet a bar of red hot iron to increasing temperature and some of its sugars caramelize to this procedure is called Stachelbier.
Source or an appellation of origin of beer:
Some beers are defined by place of source or a designation of origin, the abbey beers usually receive their names and designation by relative to some monastery, one example is the beer Trappist dependent monasteries of this order, These beers tend to be dense and with a high degree of alcohol.
There are two designations of origin: The bière North garde France and Kölch that can only be developed in Cologne are also common regional beers such as Germanyor Crafts Belgium.
However, unlike wine, the marketing of beer is not based on a system of appellations of origin assigned to a specific region which is the only allowed to make them. The beers take names registered trademarks and patent records brands and the brands turn, may entrust the preparation product in different countries.