A schwarzbier is a traditional German style that combines the easy-drinking nature of a lager clean, low in alcohol with the complex flavor profile of a porter or stout roastiness, coffee, chocolate. It's essentially, and sometimes called, a dark lager. The Weihenstephan Abbey Brewery is one of the world's oldest, founded in Its Hefe Weissbier is brimming with history—and a German wheat beer's special flavors of banana and clove.
It's also a total trail-blazer as far as Germany's beers are concerned. The country's law requires German beer to be made only from water, hops, and barley and later, when fermentation was understood, yeast The brewery made the first grapefruit hefeweizen in This beer is half hefeweizen, half grapefruit, so those banana, clove, and bread flavors are brightened with tart citrus.
While delicious on its own, it's also a great base for beer cocktails. Bell's Brewery in Michigan quickly became the forefather of the American approach to wheat beers with the Oberon Ale.
American wheat ales don't have the banana and clove flavors of German versions, instead playing up the wheaty-ness with subtle fruit aromas and a touch of spice from the hops. Bell's Oberon is so popular that when it's rolled out each year, the brewery and bars and shops who stock the beer celebrate with events and parties; there's even a holiday for it. California's Lagunitas Brewing Co.
Lagunitas takes the American wheat ale one step further with the Little Sumpin' Sumpin' Ale , a beer that brings the wheat style into bolder territory with a hoppy twist. The Fat Tire Amber Ale is somewhat of a beer industry darling. Colorado's New Belgium Brewing was one of the earliest trailblazers in what we now know as craft beer, and co-founder Kim Jordan is revered as an important game-changer in what has historically been a male-dominated industry.
The Fat Tire is named for Jordan and partner Jeff Lebesch's bicycling trip through Belgium that inspired them to open a brewery, and it was one of the first two beers they sold in Other breweries have held the Fat Tire as a model for well-balanced amber ales ever since.
Since opening in , Yazoo has inspired a vibrant beer scene to bubble up in Nashville. The Dos Perros Ale is one of its beloved flagship brews. It's a Mexican-style take on the brown ale, first made in England in the 17th century. Dos Perros nails the brown ale's nutty malt character with a touch of chocolate, but lightens things up as Mexican brewers frequently do with flaked maize for a perfect balance.
If it's something more straightforward you're after, Newcastle Brown Ale is like the brown ale poster child. The English beer has been brewed since , and it's a can't-fail classic you can count on when you see it on the menu. Brewed with pale and crystal malts, it's light and bready with touches of nuttiness and dried fruit. Today, Belgium's beer scene is richly varied between independent breweries and Trappist breweries certain abbeys that make beer producing beautiful interpretations of iconic styles.
More recently, as in during the 20th century, Belgian brewers sought to compete with German and Czech lagers with lighter styles, and the blonde ale was born. The Leffe Blonde Ale is the most classic, widely known and loved version of the effervescent, grainy-sweet, orange-y and lemon-y and sometimes a little spicy style.
Chimay's Grande Reserve is for when you're feeling a little fancy. Popping that cork is the beer equivalent of popping a nice bottle of champagne. The Grande Reserve is a Belgian Strong Ale, which boasts a bouquet of caramel, toast, plum, fig, raisin, pepper, and perfume notes with a boozy warmth.
Chimay is also an example of a Belgian Trappist breweries—one of 14 in the entire world. For a modern American take on farmhouse ales more on those in a sec , turn to Connecticut's Two Roads Brewing Company.
Their expertise is clear in the light, fruity, spicy Workers' Comp. Now for the history: Farmhouse ales were brewed with leftover crops during the winter and then saisonniers , or seasonal workers, drank them in the summer. That's where the name of a sub-group of farmhouse ales comes from, saisons. Cans can make decent maracas, while bottles are better as glass pan flutes… so that's kind of a draw.
The truth is, the majority of everyday beer is best housed in a can. As the brewer's "mini-keg," it keeps beer tasting as it was intended to for longer, with all of the added environmental and practical benefits. If you're still angry about this call, it most likely means that you didn't actually read the middle part of this article… but don't bottle up those feelings HA!
The best way to figure this out once and for all is to go out and taste-test it yourself. Who knows? Anything can happen. We apologize. Skip to main content Drink. Protection of beer. Weight and portability. Environmental impact. Traditional brewing techniques. Old-fashioned romance. And the winner is Follow him zmack. Specifically, the researchers found that The results of the main test showed that participants rated the beer poured from the bottle as tasting significantly better than the beer poured from the can.
Perceived quality was also rated as slightly higher in the beer coming from the bottle, but this result was only marginally significant. Results from the blind taste test — when participants had no knowledge about the beers or where they came from — showed that there were no preferences for bottled or canned beer , one way or another. It is important to note that the demographics of participants from all three phases of the study were similar, indicating that comparisons between phases is justified.
The results of this study confirmed what was already known both in the literature and in casual conversations that people tend to prefer beer that is from a bottle compared with beer from a can. What was most interesting, however, was that when you take away any knowledge of the beer and what the original packaging format was, the preference for bottled over canned beer disappears.
So, in essence, your preference for bottled beer over canned is likely all in your head. There appears to be some psychological aspect regarding preconceived preferences for certain packaging types that influences consumer preference for beer, which is a concept well known to researchers and beer marketers alike. With the rise in cans as a packaging format for beer and wine, for that matter , marketers can use this study to help change the stigma of the can.
Avery is one of craft brewers around the country now selling beer in cans, up from zero a decade ago. He says his brewery added cans because customers wanted them. But it made business sense, too. The cans shuffle around the small room on elevated tracks. This kind of high-tech but small-canning line is a new invention. Also new: can co-ops, which specialize in filling small aluminum can orders. These developments make the rise of craft beer in cans possible.
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