How can I buy delicious beer in life?

The sky was blue, and the sun hung like a fireball. It was midsummer before we knew it. The high temperature did not stop our enthusiasm for the night market. We had nothing to do and called two or three Go to a food stall or restaurant with friends, order a few bottles of beer, and eat them with crayfish. It’s really a delicacy in the world. Currently, beer sales are at their peak. Whether it is a barbecue restaurant or a hotel freezer, they are full of beer. However, most people have never tasted authentic good beer, and most of them drink "industrial beer".

Why do you say this? Because the quality of beer has little to do with the brand, price, and packaging. The real core of beer lies in the raw materials used in the beer brewery and the brewing process. Why is German beer recognized as a fine beer by everyone? This is because the German beer brewing process only requires four ingredients, namely malt, hops, yeast, and water. This is the traditional method of making beer, and it is what everyone often calls "craft beer."

So German beer is just right in terms of appearance, taste and bitterness of the beer itself. However, the cost of beer made from these traditional raw materials is too high and takes too long, so modernization Some breweries will use other high-efficiency materials and brewing processes to replace traditional beer brewing techniques. This is naturally to reduce costs, save time, and enable mass production, but this also results in average taste and quality.

When buying beer, look at the ingredient list on the bottle. If you see these three types of words, no matter what brand it is, it is not a good beer. Ingredients list Beer whose raw materials are rice and corn

In most industrial beer ingredient lists on the market now, you can basically see the words rice and corn. The cost of these brewing raw materials is very low, especially for For the brewing of large breweries, the production cost of beer has been greatly reduced. For example, the Harbin, Qingdao and other brands we often drink basically use these two brewing raw materials.

Compared with the mellow taste of beer brewed from whole wheat, beer brewed from rice and corn has a lighter taste, and the beer itself has a much different wheat flavor. The original wort concentration is less than 11 degrees and the alcohol content is less than 4 degrees.

I don’t know if you have noticed that the words original wort and alcohol content can be seen on the beer bottle. The numbers are large. , small values ??are available, and the beer degree we often talk about is not its own alcohol content, but the concentration of the original wort used in beer production. The higher the degree of the original wort, the more delicate the foam of the beer. It tastes more fragrant and mellow. If the alcohol content is higher, the taste will be more mellow, but the bitterness will be stronger, but the drink will be more enjoyable.

Beer with the word syrup appearing

Before the beer is fermented, adding syrup can increase the concentration of the original wort, thereby increasing the alcohol content of the beer. This not only improves the degree of fermentation, but also increases the alcohol content of the beer. It also reduces production costs, but the beer it produces loses its original strong malty aroma, tastes very light, and the foam is not long-lasting, so it is generally not recommended to buy beer with syrup added.