Posted on 25 June 2010 by admin
There are many of us who love to drink beer. This is in part due to many reasons like the refreshing taste, the color of the beer as it is poured into a glass. Then of course there is the fact that you can drink this beer and choose the varieties which you want. There are many different types of beer that is produced by beer companies. One of these types is that of natural light beer.
You will find that the meaning of this natural light beer is simple. While the delicious taste of your favorite beer is present the amount of alcohol contained in the beer is lessened. Also the various ingredients which makes beer has been changed so that some of the calories of beer are significantly reduced.
The many different types of beer that you can get will have their own version of natural light beer. To make sure these individual beer companies are still represented even with the light beer the distinctive beer taste is retained. you are probably familiar with some of the natural light beers.
For example Miller Beer has about 6 to 8 different types of light beer that you can choose from. In the various light beers which have been made from this company you will see beer that is made so that the drinker has a lower tendency to develop a hangover the next morning.
This is not a guarantee as each person’s body reacts to beer in different ways. And while drinking natural light beer is lower in the alcoholic content than compared to its counterparts, it is still an alcoholic beverage.
Now if you want more information about how light beers are made there are many different sites that you will find on the internet. With these sites you will see the various varieties of natural light beer. You can also find different sites where you will have the opportunity to purchase your natural light beer online. The prices for these beer types may be slightly more or less expensive than that of supermarkets but you will definitely have a lot more beer to choose from.
Having looked at the various types of beer which is available in stores you can then choose the natural light beer which has captured your eye or taste buds. No matter what the reason is for buying this natural light beer, you can still enjoy all of the refreshment that comes in normal beer buy in a lighter package.
Posted on 19 May 2010 by admin
Here are the different styles you may come across at different stores or your favourite local brew pub.
- Ale – originally liquor made from an infusion of malt by fermentation, as opposed to beer, which was made by the same process but flavoured with hops. Today ale is used for all beers other than stout.
- Alt – means “old”. A top fermented ale, rich, copper-coloured and full-bodied, with a very firm, tannic palate, and usually well-hopped and dry.
- Amber Beer – an ale with a depth of hue halfway between pale and dark.
- Barley Wine – dark, rich, usually bittersweet, heavy ales with high alcohol content, made for sipping, not quaffing.
- Bitter – the driest and one of the most heavily hopped beers served on draft. The nose is generally aromatic, the hue amber and the alcoholic content moderate.
- Bock – a strong dark German lager, ranging from pale to dark brown in colour, with a minimum alcoholic content of about 6 percent.
- Brown Ale – malty beers, dark in colour and they may be quite sweet.
- Burton – a strong ale, dark in colour, made with a proportion of highly dried or roasted malts.
- Christmas/Holiday Beer – these special season beers are amber to dark brown, richly flavoured with a sweetish palate. Some are flavoured with special spices and/or herbs.
- Dopplebock – “double bock.” A stronger version of bock beer, decidedly malty, with an alcoholic content ranging from 8 percent to 13 percent by volume.
- Hefe-Weizen – a wheat beer, lighter in body, flavour and alcohol strength.
- Ice Beer – a high-alcohol beer made by cooling the beer during the process to below the freezing point of water (32 degrees Fahrenheit) but above that of alcohol (-173 degrees Fahrenheit). . When the formed ice is removed and discarded, the beer ends up with a higher alcohol-to-water ratio.
- India Pale Ale (IPA) – a generously hopped pale ale.
- Kolsch – West German ale, very pale (brassy gold) in hue, with a mild malt flavour and some lactic tartness.
- Malt Liquor – most malt liquors are lagers that are too alcoholic to be labelled lagers or beers.
- Muncheners – a malty, pale lager distinguished from the darker, heavier Munich Dark beers by the term “dunkel”.
- Octoberfest/ Maerzen/Vienna – a copper-coloured, malty beer brewed at the end of the winter brewing season in March.
- Pale Ale – made of the highest quality malts, the driest and most highly hopped beer. Sold as light ale or pale ale in bottle or on draft as bitter.
- Pilsner – delicately dry and aromatic beers.
- Porter – a darker (medium to dark reddish brown) ale style beer, full-bodied, a bit on the bitter side. The barley (or barley-malt) is well roasted, giving the brew a characteristic chocolaty, bittersweet flavour.
- Stout – beer brewed from roasted, full-flavoured malts, often with an addition of caramel sugar and a slightly higher proportion of hops. Stouts have a richer, slightly burnt flavour and are dark in colour.
- Sweet Stout – also known as milk stout because some brewers use lactose (milk sugar) as an ingredient.
- Wheat Beer – a beer in which wheat malt is substituted for barley malt. Usually medium-bodied, with a bit of tartness on the palate