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- From: jeff@maggot.gg.caltech.edu (Jeff Goldsmith)
- Newsgroups: alt.beer,rec.food.drink
- Subject: Re: Recommended Bottled Beers For Beginning Beer Drinkers, Revision 6
- Date: 21 Nov 1992 20:10:21 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- In <1992Nov20.220051.1802@news.nd.edu> ulick@bernini.helios.nd.edu (Ulick Stafford) writes:
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- >In article <1ejkumINNi0f@cat.cis.Brown.EDU> plutchak@pilsner.geo.brown.edu (Joel Plutchak) writes:
- >>
- >>Basic ales: These are beers brewed with top-fermenting ale yeasts. I
- >>include pale ales, which are generally hoppier, fruitier, and lightier-
- >>bodied than the standard english-style ale like Bass. I also include the
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- >Bass is a pale ale. I think you are mixing up the terms cream ale and pale
- >ale. Cream ale is paler than pale ale, but is an American beer. Plae ale is
- >pale in comparison to porters and brown ales.
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- As I understand it, cream ale is a mixture of lager and ale,
- pretty much only done in North America.
-
- Ale is, as quoted, made with top-fermenting ale yeasts, usually at
- room temperature. (Lagers, for example are bottom-fermented at
- colder tamperatures.) The difference between pale ales and brown
- ales is the malt used. Roasted malts produce a browner color and
- thicker texture than lighter malts. Some pale ales (perish the
- thought) also use some corn sugar or other sugars to replace some
- of the malt in order to give the final product a lighter color and
- thinner texture.
- --Jeff
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