Beer Types

Ale: Usually a dark gold to reddish in color, more fruity flavored, beer made from top-fermenting yeasts which is yeast rises to the top of the beer vats during fermentation.

Draught Beer: Any beer served from a keg. Usually contains less carbonation than bottled beer so it tastes slightly different and usually better.

Dry Beer: Usually golden in color, this beer has little or no after taste since most of the sugars are converted into alcohol during fermentation.

Lager: Most popular type of beer based on using bottom-fermenting yeasts where the yeast settles to the bottom. Light in color and often highly carbonated.

Ice Beers: During the brewing process, the beer is reduced in temperature until the point where it begins to crystalize in ice. These ice crystals are then removed, thereby removing extra water, leaving behind a higher alcohol level.

Malt: By-product of grains after first soaking them in water starting the germination process, then drying out producing a powdery substance.

Mash: Mixing malt with water, then raising it to boiling tempertures begins to turn the starches into sugars that will be used in fermentation.

Stout: Dark beers usually from roasted malts.

Beer Can Terms

Flat Top: Similar to today's beer can shape. The All-American Beer can is an example.

Crowntainer: The Schmidt's Beer shows an example of a crowntainer. Notice the bottle cap top and how the can top has a gradually reducing neck.

Cone Top: Type of Can with a top shaped like a ... yes, you guessed it a Cone. The Atlantic Beer can above shows that it looks like a cross between the flat top and the crown.