Cask conditioning is a process by which the beer is aged in a cask, or keg, where it matures and carbonates naturally. The beer is then pumped by air to the bar, where it is served at "cellar temperature," about 54 degrees F.

No, however it is unfiltered. As a result, the yeast in the bottle will help the beer mature and develop over time.

It is beer that has not been pasteurized, and still has live yeast in it. It will continue to age in the bottle, and the character of the beer will change over time. For some kinds of beer this is good, for others it means they will spoil after a while.

Nine to twelve days after adding the yeast, the beer will probably be finished fermenting and ready to bottle. Before bottling or kegging, it is necessary to take 2 hydrometer readings in 4 days to make sure the final gravity has been reached. Put a sanitized hydrometer into your beer and spin it to dislodge any bubbles that may distort the reading. The reading is taken at the point where the stem emerges from the beer. Take the first reading and record it.

The white layer is yeast, and is present in all home brewed beer that has been naturally carbonated by the action of the yeast eating priming sugar. Although it will not hurt you, and is full of vitamin B, it does taste yeasty. Decant the beer off the yeast sediment into a glass to avoid picking up the yeast sediment.

Beer is made from extracting sugar from the starch in malted grain. This is boiled with sufficient water & hops to make a "wort." When this has cooled, brewing yeast is added to ferment the wort to create this finished product, which is suitable for bottling or kegging, and maturation. Some people mash their own grain, while others buy canned malt extract.

Your beer will be a carbonated beverage which will exert pressure on the bottle you store it in. You will need to make sure that you use bottles that were designed to package carbonated beverages. These include beer bottles, champagne bottles, carbonated soft drink bottles, carbonated juice bottles or any other bottles that were used to store fizzy drinks. It is dangerous to use bottles that were not properly designed for carbonated beverages because of the high risk of explosion.

Indeed, many of these questions can be answered by doing a little research. I admire the patience and good will of the members of this forum for answering many of these questions over and over without sarcasm- I know I've asked at least ONE of the questions listed here. Why stop alone at tiresome questions, why not have a poll of tiresome replies? Here's a couple of examples:

No! Beer must be bottled in glass designed to hold the pressure, which are beer bottles, soda bottles, or champagne bottles. Using wine bottles or mason jars is an invitation to disaster, as they will explode as the carbonation builds after sealing. 6.13 Do your blue bottles protect beer from light as well as your amber bottles? No, the blue glass is for looks, and does not protect beer from light quite as well as amber bottles, but does protect as well as a dark green bottle.

You can have beer once in a while, nonetheless watch how much and how often you consume it. Even though beer contains less alcohol than wine or other alcoholic beverages, it may cause more estrogenic effects than any other plain alcoholic drink. There are two reasons why. First, typical beer consumption per sitting is much higher than consumption of wine or other beverages. Just look at the super gigantic size of a beer mug, compared to wine or vodka glasses.

We've recently added distribution information. Go to the beer's page and then click the "geographic information" link to see where people have told us the beer is being distributed. Feel free to add you own information.

Yes, there are low levels of carbohydrates in beer, but only trace amounts of simple sugars, including maltose, in beer.(8, 9, 10, 11) Most light beers are low in carbohydrates. Bud Light, for example, contains 6.6 grams of carbs per serving.

In the vast world of extreme sports, there exists a sub-culture at its heart best known as "digestive athletics". The most famous, glorified, respected, and celebrated of all the events of this underworld is the Beer Mile. The foundation of any true beer mile is built upon two things: drinking beer and running a mile. The most common format of the beer mile requires a single participant to drink a full-sized beer, run a quarter mile, then repeat the process three times.

One 30 mL bottle of MigraSpray contains approximately 20 doses (or 200 full sprays). If using daily for prevention, one bottle will last approximately 20 days.

In short, no. While RateBeer encourages its members to learn as much as they can about beer and beer styles, RateBeer uses a Hedonic Scale to judge a beer according to how much it pleases the nose, eyes and tongue. Rating to style is what is done at the Great American Beer Festival, many homebrew competitions and other beer competitions around the world. We're glad these contests exist and that they do rate to style, however we feel the same way about dog shows.