What's the craft beer?

Every beer lover defines craft beer with his own unique interpretation and talks about how he discovered craft beer. In addition, each beer brand has its own characteristics, making the definition of craft beer more difficult. However, the Beer Manufacturers Association has defined the American craft beer manufacturers. This definition enables the association to provide statistics for the craft beer brewing sector, which accounts for the majority of the US beer brewing industry and is on the rise.

Let’s take a look at the origin of craft beer
The concept of craft beer was initiated by the Americans. The requirements of the American Brewers Association for craft brewers:
1. The annual output is less than 6 million barrels (953388 million tons), and the beer produced is used for commercial transactions.
2. Autonomy, non-craft brewers or corporate institutions, whose shares cannot exceed 25%.
3. Traditionally, the manufacturer has a whole malt flagship product (the beer is the first in the production of all brands of the manufacturer) or at least 50% of its output is whole malt beer or additives that increase (rather than reduce) the flavor beer.

Why do we drink craft beer?

People have various descriptions of craft beer, such as 10-minute pleasure, bliss in the cup, authenticity, prototype, and wise drink that can only be tasted but not drunk. It is a feast in our daily life and is regarded by many as a special product in life, making life more flavorful and feeling better. Each glass of craft beer shows the creativity and passion of the brewer and the complexity of its ingredients, which is cherished by millions of people all over the world. In the eyes of these people, craft beer is not only a fermented beverage, but also worthy of moderate enjoyment, appreciation and respect. As a multi-functional beverage, craft beer can not only enhance the flavor of food when paired with food, but also is often brought into the kitchen and used as a cooking ingredient.

Then there are many types of craft beer, such as dry beer, cold beer, whole malt beer, etc. Do you know how these are defined? Let us take a look at it together.
Dry beer: Dry beer refers to a beer with a true fermentation degree of not less than 72%. This beer tastes pure and dry. In addition to characteristics, other requirements should comply with the regulations for the corresponding type of beer.
Ice beer: Ice beer is a new variety that has emerged in recent years. Its characteristic is that the beer is processed by ice crystallization in the production process, and the turbidity is less than 0.8 EBC. In addition to characteristics, other requirements should comply with the regulations for the corresponding type of beer. It strengthens the removal of condensed solids and reduces the residual extract of beer. The original wort concentration and alcohol content are also appropriately increased, but the increase is not large. Like dry beer, cold beer has a more pure and refreshing taste, but it has a brighter and more transparent appearance, has good resistance to cold and turbidity, and has a longer shelf life.

Whole-malt beer: Whole-malt beer refers to the beer produced by saccharification, wort filtration, wort boiling and adding hops, fermentation, post-fermentation, and storage of malt. In addition to characteristics, other requirements should comply with the regulations for the corresponding type of beer.
Wheat beer: wheat beer is brewed from wheat malt (more than 40% of malt) and water as the main raw material. The beer has the special aroma produced by brewing wheat malt. In addition to the characteristics, other requirements should meet the corresponding type of beer Provisions. Its characteristics are refreshing, soft, excellent foam performance, and a fat fragrance. Some are similar to foreign white beer and top-fermented beer. If the top yeast is purely fermented, its flavor characteristics will be different from the existing bottom-fermented beer, especially its taste is slightly more acidic.
Fruit and vegetable juice beer: Fruit and vegetable juice beer refers to the addition of a certain amount of fruit and vegetable juice, which has its characteristic physical and chemical indexes and flavor, and maintains the basic taste of beer. In addition to the characteristic, other requirements should meet the corresponding beer regulations.

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