Beer Glossary

A bottle with a capacity of 1.5 liters (two 75 cl bottles), used by some brewers for special or keeping cuvées.

This is the brew, also called salade or trempe in French. It is the mixture of malt and water in the mash tun during brewing.

Barley that has been artificially germinated, dried and ground into flour, used to make beer. Depending on how much the barley has been heated, the malt will likewise be more or less deeply colored (from pale to brown, through amber, russet...), which determines the color of the beer. Some roasted malts are used to give beer a dark color and a distinctive toasted taste.
Malt provides most of the fermentable sugars for brewing.

This is the operation which consists of transforming barley into malt by germinating it.

In Germany, March beer is brewed in March to be served in the summer. In Belgium, it is a beer used in the composition of faro. In France, March beer refers to both an October brew served in March and the beer produced during the month of March, for the summer.

Vessel in which mashing and saccharification take place: the milled malt is mixed with hot water in it. It often has a false bottom that holds back the spent grain when the wort is filtered.

Operation of adding water to the malt flour obtained by milling. The product of mashing is called the “maïsche.” Saccharification can then begin (conversion of starch into sugars that yeast can use). Alsatian master brewers prefer to say “imaïsche” rather than empâtage!

Said of a generous beer that lingers in the mouth. You can feel the texture of the beer, which does not flow straight down the throat, releasing the sweetness of its aroma.

Small brewery that produces beer in limited quantities, often sold locally (see Craft beer and Brewpub).

Mild is the oldest type of beer. It is a brown British beer. It is the ancestor of the first Porters. Colored by the strength of a malt roasted over a wood fire, Mild is lightly hopped.

Operation that reduces malt to a grist made up of husks, grits and flour. Milling is done in a roller mill and comes before mashing.