Dark beer

What distinguishes dark beer from light? Original traditional beers are dark. Until the 19th century, technology was not allowed to process malt in such a way that the drink acquired light shades. Absolutely all types of beer were either dark or semi-dark.

Differences in color are due to featuresproduction of different beverage varieties. Everything depends on the malt that is used in the creation process. For light beer take only light malt. To produce it, the barley is germinated and dried at a certain temperature. When making dark varieties use dark, burnt, caramel, and light malt in different proportions.

Dark malt is made from germinatedbarley, dried at a temperature of 105 ° C. In dark beer, less hops are added than in light beer, so that its taste is softer. In addition, there are other, less significant differences in the technologies for preparing different beverage varieties.

Dark unfiltered beer is classic. Despite the fact that modern brewing has made possible the production of varieties with different tastes, completely independent of their color (chocolate-coffee, with the taste of raisins, dried fruits, smoked or sweet, sometimes fruit flavor), true connoisseurs consider it to be natural drinks.

The best snack for dark beer is neutral cheese withsoft, calm taste, which does not interfere with enjoying the drink itself. Excellent smoked meat. It is noteworthy that dry fish in this context is not a good option of "accompaniment". Also, according to gourmets, dark chocolate and dark beer are perfectly combined.

The use of the drink is, first of all, inhigh content of iron, which decreases in the production of light varieties due to mandatory filtration. The highest content of iron - in Mexican and Spanish dark beer. Therefore, the use of dark varieties promotes an increase in the level of hemoglobin, which delivers oxygen to the organs and tissues.

Russian dark beer to taste and quality is not inferior to the famous European brands. It enjoys a stable demand, but, in comparison with the light, its range is not replenished with new products.

Sometimes due to lack of knowledge of many aspectsproduction and subtleties of tastes beer only by the criterion of color is divided into two classes: lager (bottom fermentation) and ale (horse fermentation). This is a delusion. In fact, the technology of both low and high fermentation allows you to get beer of different shades. In other words, judging only by the color, to which of the classes mentioned beer refers, it is impossible.

It was noticed that different varieties of drinksare perceived differently depending on the time of day and year. It is believed that dark beer is a drink more suitable for the evening and more preferable for the cold season. You should drink it from glasses or mugs made of natural materials (porcelain, wood, ceramics or glass).