We don't think anyone should feel confused or inferior when talking beer.
Quite the contrary, we'd rather help you understand beer better, because the more you know, the more you'll appreciate great beer.
Looking for the definition of a brewing term that you don't understand? Peruse our beer & brewing encyclopedia to expand your brewing knowledge and vocabulary.
But don't wear out your tongue on terms...let your tongue taste more than talk when evaluating and enjoying a great beer.
- Abbey Ale
- Adjuncts
- Aftertaste
- Alcohol
- Alcohol by Volume
- Alcohol by Weight
- Ale
- Ale Yeast
- Alpha Acid
- Apparent Extract
- Aroma Hops
- Balance
- Bamberg Beer
- Barley
- Barley Wine
- Barrel
- Beer
- Belgian Lace
- Berliner Weisse
- Bitter
- Bittering Hops
- Bitterness Units
- Black Beer
- Black Malt
- Bock
- Body
- Boiling
- Bottle-conditioned
- Bottom Fermenting Yeast
- Bouquet
- Brettanomyces
- Brew Kettle
- Brewing
- Brown Ale
- Caramel Malt
- Carbonation
- Cask
- Cask-conditioned
- Chill haze
- Chocolate Malt
- Cider
- Cold Break
- Cold Conditioning
- Color
- Conditioning
- Cooker
- Cork
- Corn
- Craft Beer
- Cream Ale
- Crystal Malt
- Decanting
- Decoction
- Dextrins
- Diacetyl
- Diatomaceous Earth
- Dissolved Oxygen
- Dortmunder
- Double Bock
- Draft Beer
- Dry Hopping
- Dry Stout
- Eisbock
- Enzymes
- Esters
- Ethyl Alcohol
- Extract
- Faro
- Fermentation
- Fermenter
- Filtration
- Finings
- Finish
- Fire brewing
- Flavor Profile
- Foam
- Four Vessel Brewing
- Freshness Dating
- Fuggles
- German Beer Purity Law
- Germination
- Ginger Ale
- Ginger Beer
- Goldings
- Grains of Paradise
- Green Beer
- Grist
- Gueuze
- Hallertau Mittelfrueh Hops
- Haze
- Head
- Head Space
- Hefe
- Hefeweizen
- Hops
- Husked and dehusked malt
- IBU
- Ice Beer
- Independent
- India Pale Ale
- Infusion
- Irish Ale
- Irish Stout
- Keg
- Kilning
- Kosmic Mother Funk (KMF)
- Krausening
- Kriek
- Lager
- Lager Yeast
- Lagering
- Lambic
- Lauter Tun
- Lautering
- Legs
- Light Beer
- Malt
- Malt Liquor
- Malted Barley
- Malting
- Marzenbier
- Mash
- Mash Filtering
- Mash Tun
- Mashing
- Milling
- Mouth feel
- Munchener
- Noble Hops
- Nose
- Oatmeal Stout
- Octoberfest
- Original Gravity
- Oxidation
- Oyster Stout
- Pale Ale
- Pale Malt
- Pasteurization
- Perry
- Phenolic
- Pilsner
- Pilsner Glass
- Pint
- Pitching
- Plato, degrees
- Porter
- Prohibition
- Prohibition Style Beer
- Rapid Fermentation
- Rauchbier
- Real Extract
- Reinheitsgebot
- Rice
- Roasted Malt
- Ruh Storage
- Russian Stout
- Rye
- Rye Beer
- Saaz Hops
- Saccharomyces Carlsbergensis
- Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
- Saison
- Schankbier
- Scotch Ale
- Seasonal Beers
- Secondary fermentation
- Sediment
- Six Row Barley
- Small
- Small Beer
- Smoked Beer
- Sorghum
- Spalt Hops
- Sparge
- Specific Gravity
- Spiced Beer
- Spontaneous fermentation
- Spruce Beer
- Stave
- Steam Beer
- Steeping
- Stein
- Step Infusion
- Sterile Filtration
- Stock Ale
- Stout
- Styles
- Tankard
- Tannins
- Tap
- Taste Panel
- Tasting
- Terminal Gravity
- Tettnang Hops
- Top Fermenting Yeast
- Traditional
- Trappist Beer
- Trub
- Two Row Barley
- Veil
- Vienna lager
- Vinegar
- Water
- Weissbier
- Weizenbier
- Weizenbock
- Wheat Beer
- Whirlpool
- White Ale
- Wild Yeast
- Winter Ale
- Wort
- Yard
- Yeast
- Yeast Fermentable Extract
- Zymurgy
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