ABV
- Alcohol By Volume, the percent of alcohol in the beer
Adjunct - Anything that isn't
malted barley.
Barley -
Brewpub - A restaurant-brewery that sells
25 percent or more of its beer on-site, with the beer brewed primarily for sale in the restaurant and bar.
Bomber
- A
22-ounce beer bottle.
Bottle/cask-conditioned - Naturally carbonated via re-fermentation
in the bottle or keg. Conditioning can also facilitate longer shelf life, and conditioned beers are better candidates
for cellaring.
CAMRA - Campaign for Real Ale
Cask -
Hops -
Hop bomb - Any beer that is made with so many hop additions
that the hop aroma and flavor become dominated by said hops.
Imperial - any higher-alcohol version of an existing beer style
International Bittering Units (IBUs) - a number that measure bitterness in the beer
Lees - the layer
of sediment often found in the bottom of bottles
Microbrewery - A brewery that produces fewer
than 15,000 barrels (17,600 hectoliters) of beer per year with at least 75 percent of its beer sold off-site. These businesses
sell to the public by one or more of the following methods: the traditional three-tier system (brewer to wholesaler to retailer
to consumer); the two-tier system (brewer acting as wholesaler to retailer to consumer); and directly to the consumer through
carryouts and/or on-site taproom or restaurant sales.
Regional Brewery - A brewery with annual production
of 15,000- 2,000,000 barrels (one barrel holds 31 U.S. gallons).
Reinheitsgebot -
Session beer - A lower-alcohol
brew designed so that one can consume several without feeling the need to become a disciple of the porcelain god.
Wort -
Yeast -