Craft Beer

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People often use the term Craft Beer for a Beer brewed by an independent brewery that produces a small amount of liquor. Unfortunately, it is tough to define the 'small amount' as no set definition exists to explain it.

According to most connoisseurs, Craft Beer is a drink prepared in an independently owned brewery that is not a part of any large corporation. Well, 98% of existing breweries of the United States produce Beer in a craftsmanship way.

However, a craft brewery owned by a large corporation mass produces a Beer. Technically, it stops being a craft beverage, but most companies still label such Beers as craft-made.

Generally, Craft Beer prepared with traditional ingredients, such as malted barley, and non-traditional ingredients often add distinctiveness. Such products are usually marketed or perceived as emphasising motivation, new flavours, and different brewing techniques.

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Different Characteristics of Craft Beer

Some properties that set a craft brewery apart from different mass-production Beer corporations are as follows:

• Size: In the United States, a craft brewery is a small unit. Typically, it produces not more than six million brew barrels per year.
• Independence: A craft brewery is an independently owned unit by a few people. Nowadays, big corporations can not control or own a craft brewery, not more than 25 % of it.
• Authenticity: A craft brewery always uses traditional techniques to brew Beer. It does not use additives, such as rice or corn to speed up the production process.
• Innovation: The small brewery searches for unique, new flavours and improves traditional old recipes. So, you can find more than 150 styles of Craft Beer.
• Origin: The craft brewery production is entirely transparent. You are always welcome to learn about their ingredients or techniques.
• Community: Craft breweries are everywhere, but they firmly connect to the local community. Anyone is welcome to enjoy the tour. Also, craft brewers donate their beverages and become sponsors of various local events.

Types of Craft Beer

Over the past few decades, many people have appreciated craft Beer, and it doesn't seem to be slowing down anytime soon. There are several craft breweries in every state, and various new craft Beers pop up each year.

Here are some popular types of craft beer:

• American Pale Ale

It is one of the most popular types of craft beer. It has a distinctive flavour of hops that differentiates it from European craft beers. Its strong taste pairs well with fruitier and sweeter flavours, like grapefruit and caramel.

• Kolsch & Blonde

They are craft beer styles from southwest Germany. Makers produce them using hops, Pils or pale malt, and yeast for a clean and crisp taste. They mature in cool brewing conditions for several weeks to make a transparent drink.

• Belgium Pale Ale

Belgium pale ale brewed from pilsner or pale malts has a fruity yet mildly spicy flavour. The makers add Belgian ale yeast to introduce a unique flavour. It is easy to drink and often offers subtle herbal, floral, or spicy undertones.

• Hefeweizen

Hefeweizen is a well-known craft beer from Germany. It has a distinct wheat flavour, and it shares various similarities with American wheat ale. It often has banana or bubble-gum undertones.

• Porter and Stouts

Makers brew porters with chocolate to accentuate the roasted malts or coffee to add bitter flavours. Then, they age in whiskey barrels to add heat and depth. They are usually dark in colour with low levels of hop bitterness.

Whereas stouts are alcoholic beers with dark brown colour and a bitter finish.

• Brown Ale

Brown ales taste quite mild and have caramel-focused malt undertones. They lack the roasted style American brown's feature.

• Amber (Red) Ale

Amber ale is an easy and smooth drink developed early in American craft brewing. It tends to have the strongest hoppy flavours.

Popular Types of Craft Beer Online

If you are a serious Beer drinker, you must know about different craft Beers. Before ordering, take a second and look at some of the excellent craft Beers below:

• Choose Matilda Bay Dogbolter Winter Ale

This full-flavoured dark lager, first brewed in 1985by Matilda Bay, has been refined steadily over the years. It has an impressive dark red hue with delicate aromas of caramel, chocolate, and toast notes. It has a 4.7% ABV.

• Order Giffard Falernum Syrup

The drink made by a fifth-generation family in France in 1885 uses spice, natural almonds, and 100% authentic French sugar beet. It does not contain any preservatives.

This straw-coloured, pale beverage has well-balanced traditional recipe blends. It has delicate flavours of almond, clove, lime, and other spices.

• Shop for Stockade Refreshing Ale

This refreshing Ale is a clean, crisp, full-flavoured, delicately-balanced Beer with subtle fruity aromas and flavours. It has a deep gold colour with slightly hazy hints. There is a subdued maltiness with hop flavours, leading to a refreshing finish.

• Order Mornington Draught

Prepared on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, this draught uses Australian premium malts to deliver an authentic lager. It has a refreshingly full-bodied flavour with a clean and crisp finish. It has 4.6% alcohol by volume.

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Production Process of a Craft Beer

Craft Beer consists of four essential ingredients: Barley (or any other grain), hops, water, and yeast. In its brewing process, makers extract sugars from grains to convert yeast into CO2 and alcohol, resulting in Beer.

Different stages of the Craft Beer production process are as follows:

• Malting

Though barley is the most popular cereal grain for Craft Beer production, it can also use other grains like wheat or rye. After grain harvesting, seeds undergo the malting process. After that, it aims to start seed germinating.

The germination process activates starch enzymes to create fermentable sugars by adding the yeast in the process later. However, it is necessary to stop the germination process at the right time. Grain harvested out has 10 to 12 per cent moisture content.

After germination, dry the grains back to three to five per cent moisture content through kilning. Lastly, roast the grains.

• Mash and Lauter

After malting the grains, steep them in hot water again. The mashing process activates starch enzymes in cereal grains to release sugar. Then, drain the water leaving a syrupy, sweet liquid called wort.

However, there are still some grain parts left. So, next, separate wort from grains.

• Boiling and Adding Hops

After lautering, add hops and other spices. Hops are pine cone-looking small fruit that grows on vines. They provide bitterness to balance the sugar in the wort. In addition, hops have a natural preservative quality.

• Fermentation: Ales and Lagers

Beer is divided into two categories: ales and lagers. The type of yeast used and the fermentation process determines these two groups. After adding hops and finishing boiling, the liquid goes to a fermenting vessel to add yeast.

Yeast is a single-cell, living microorganism classified as fungi. After adding the yeast, it breaks down sugar and creates carbonization (CO2 and) alcohol.

Ales are fermented at approximately 64 degrees and can be drunk within three weeks. Whereas lager is the German word, "to store." They are fermented at around 50 degrees and then stored for several months near-freezing temperatures.

• Bottling

After Beer fermentation, fill it in the bottles, kegs, aluminium cans, or casks.

How to Prepare Craft Beer Cocktails

Though Craft Beer enthusiasts are the most adventurous drinkers globally, many are still hesitant about Beer-based cocktails. But following are some delicious Craft Beer cocktail recipes to broaden your horizons:

#1 Auchentoshan and Ale Recipe

Ale and Whisky have been firm friends. The 'hauf' (a whisky and ale chaser) has a bold nuttiness and citrus aroma that goes perfectly with the chilled Beer crispness. This flavours combo provides you with an unexpectedly refreshing drink.

Ingredients:

• Auchentoshan American Oak - 35ml
• Lemon Juice - 25ml
• Honey Syrup - 25ml
• Pale Ale - 90ml
• Lemon Wedge

Directions:

• Put Auchentoshan American Oak in the ice-filled shaker.
• Then, pour lemon juice and honey syrup into it.
• Now, shake it vigorously and strain the prepared mixture into the vessel filled with ice.
• Last, top it with a Craft Beer of your choice.

You can garnish it with a lemon wedge and enjoy this drink.

#2 Ginger Shandy Recipe

Though shandy is rare as a cocktail, it is a good beverage. It has a bitter and spicy taste with a refreshing balance of Wheat Beer.

Ingredients:

• Ginger Wine - 1 tbsp
• Ginger Cordial- 1 tsp
• Lemon Juice - 25ml
• Wheat Beer or IPA - 250ml
• Lemon Wedge

Directions:

• Fill a cocktail shaker with ice and add lemon juice to it.
• Pour ginger wine and ginger cordial into it.
• Shake it vigorously until cold.
• Strain the prepared mixture into the bottom of two glasses
• Top up with 250ml of Beer (wheat Beers and hoppy IPAs)

Garnish it with Lemon Wedge and serve it to enjoy this delicious drink.

#3 Craft Michelada Recipe

This popular beverage offers its take on a Bloody Mary but substitutes for vodka. In addition, various United States craft breweries make Mexican-style Pilsners, making a crisp and mild hoppy Michelada.

Ingredients:

• Coarse salt
• Chilli Powder
• Hot Sauce - 10 ml
• Lime Juice - 60ml
• Worcestershire Sauce - 5ml
• Lager - 330ml

Directions:

• Add chilli powder and salt into a shallow dish.
• Rub a glass rim with lime juice.
• Then, dip a glass into that shallow dish to make a salt rim.
• Pour lime juice into the glass.
• Now, add hot sauce and Worcestershire sauce into that glass.
• Finally, add a pinch of salt and ice.
• Top it with Beer and stir gently to mix everything.

Now, you can serve and enjoy this drink.

#4 Beer Sangria Recipe

Sangria is a refreshing, sweet, and sugary drink. Skip the wine and replace it with a Craft Beer to avoid the hangover. The effervescence and sweetness of wheat ale compliment the other ingredients greatly in the sangria.

Ingredients:

• Wheat Beer - 36 oz.
• White Rum or Vodka - 1 cup
• Pineapple Juice - 1 cup
• Lemons, Limes, Oranges, Grapefruit, Apple, Strawberries, etc. - Sliced fruits

Directions:

• Pour Craft Beer in the large pitcher.
• Add white Rum in it.
• Now, pour pineapple juice in it.
• Mix it with all the sliced fruits.
• Finally, add some sparkling lemonade or flavoured soda.

You can serve this chilled drink and enjoy it.

#5 Beer Mojito Recipe

It is a refreshing drink made with delicious Craft Beer, best to enjoy in the summers. All the flavours blend together to make a refreshing, high-content drink in this drink.

Ingredients:

• Blonde Ale - 12 oz.
• White Rum - 2 oz.
• Fresh Mint Leaves -10
• Lime Juice - 1 squeeze
• Simple Syrup - 2 tbsp
• Lime Wedge and Mint Sprig

Directions:

• Muddle some lime and mint into a cocktail glass.
• Add white Rum and syrup into it
• Finally, top it off with craft blonde ale.

You can garnish it with a lime wedge and mint sprig. Then, serve it and enjoy.

#6 The Duchess of London Cocktail Recipe

This drink delights everyone's senses. It has a sweet and tart flavour made from a deadly combination of Beer and Gin. But, you can make it easily without fancy ingredients or tools.

Ingredients:

• Freshly Made Ginger Syrup 
• Freshly Squeezed Lemon Juice 
• Your favourite Beer
• Gin - 2 oz

Directions:

• Put freshly made ginger syrup into a shaker.
• Then, add freshly squeezed lemon juice to it.
• Now, pour your favourite Craft Beer and Gin into that shaker.

Shake it vigorously and serve it.

Order Craft Beer at Hello Drinks Superstore

Hello Drinks Superstore is an independently owned online liquor store in Australia. We have more than 4500 liquor drinks for you. In addition, you can support various local suppliers in growing their business by ordering their products on our website. You can easily purchase products like Beer, Wine, Champagne, Whisky, Spirits, Cocktail Mixes, and many more through our website.

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