Homebrewing, the Glossary
Homebrewing is the brewing of beer or other alcoholic beverages on a small scale for personal, non-commercial purposes.[1]
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99 relations: Alcohol law, Alcoholic drinks in China, Ale, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Australia, Australian Taxation Office, Barley, Barter, Beer, Beer in the United States, Beer Judge Certification Program, Beer style, BeerXML, Brewers Association, Brewery, Brewing, Carbon dioxide, Carboy, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Charlie Papazian, Chondrus crispus, Christina Perozzi and Hallie Beaune, Coolship, Cornelius keg, Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union, Distillation, Dynasties of China, Ethanol, European Commission, Excise, F.H. Steinbart, Fermentation lock, Finings, Flip-top, Free software, Fruit wine, Glucose, Gough Whitlam, Grolsch Brewery, Hansard, History of alcoholic drinks, History of beer, History of wine, HM Revenue and Customs, Hydrometer, Industrial Revolution, Industrialisation, Iraq, ... Expand index (49 more) »
Alcohol law
Alcohol laws are laws relating to manufacture, use, being under the influence of and sale of alcohol (also known formally as ethanol) or alcoholic beverages.
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Alcoholic drinks in China
There is a long history of alcoholic drinks in China.
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Ale
Ale is a type of beer, brewed using a warm fermentation method.
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.
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Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.
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Ancient Rome
In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
Australian Taxation Office
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is an Australian statutory agency and the principal revenue collection body for the Australian Government.
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Barley
Barley (Hordeum vulgare), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally.
Barter
In trade, barter (derived from baretor) is a system of exchange in which participants in a transaction directly exchange goods or services for other goods or services without using a medium of exchange, such as money.
Beer
Beer is an alcoholic beverage produced by the brewing and fermentation of starches from cereal grains—most commonly malted barley, although wheat, maize (corn), rice, and oats are also used.
Beer in the United States
In the United States, beer are manufactured in breweries which range in size from industry giants to brew pubs and microbreweries.
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Beer Judge Certification Program
The Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) is a non-profit organization formed in 1985 to recognize beer tasting and evaluation skills.
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Beer style
Beer styles differentiate and categorise beers by colour, flavour, strength, ingredients, production method, recipe, history, or origin.
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BeerXML
BeerXML is a free, fully defined XML data description standard designed for the exchange of beer brewing recipes and other brewing data.
Brewers Association
The Brewers Association (BA) is an American trade group of over 5,400 brewers, breweries in planning, suppliers, distributors, craft beer retailers, and individuals particularly concerned with the promotion of craft beer and homebrewing.
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Brewery
A brewery or brewing company is a business that makes and sells beer.
Brewing
Brewing is the production of beer by steeping a starch source (commonly cereal grains, the most popular of which is barley) in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.
Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.
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Carboy
A carboy, also known as a demijohn or a lady jeanne, is a rigid container with a typical capacity of.
Chancellor of the Exchequer
The chancellor of the exchequer, often abbreviated to Chancellor, is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom, and head of Treasury.
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Charlie Papazian
Charles N. Papazian (born January 23) is an American nuclear engineer, brewer and author.
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Chondrus crispus
Chondrus crispus—commonly called Irish moss or carrageenan moss (Irish carraigín, "little rock")—is a species of red algae which grows abundantly along the rocky parts of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America.
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Christina Perozzi and Hallie Beaune
Christina Perozzi and Hallie Beaune are a pair of authors, who together maintain the website TheBeerChicks.com (originally called "Beer for Chicks", where they cover beer and alcohol related topics In 2009 Perozzi was named "Best Beer Sommelier" by Los Angeles magazine and in 2012 Perozzi and Beaune published The Naked Pint: An Unadulterated Guide to Craft Beer and hosted the Cooking Channel special Eat This, Drink That.
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Coolship
A coolship (Anglicized version of the Dutch/Flemish koelschip) is a type of brewing vessel traditionally used in the production of beer.
Cornelius keg
A Cornelius keg (also known as a Corny keg or soda keg) is a stainless steel canister (keg) originally used as containers by the soft drink industry.
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Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union
The Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union (DG TAXUD) is a Directorate-General of the European Commission.
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Distillation
Distillation, also classical distillation, is the process of separating the component substances of a liquid mixture of two or more chemically discrete substances; the separation process is realized by way of the selective boiling of the mixture and the condensation of the vapors in a still.
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Dynasties of China
For most of its history, China was organized into various dynastic states under the rule of hereditary monarchs.
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Ethanol
Ethanol (also called ethyl alcohol, grain alcohol, drinking alcohol, or simply alcohol) is an organic compound with the chemical formula.
European Commission
The European Commission (EC) is the primary executive arm of the European Union (EU).
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Excise
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F.H. Steinbart
F.H. Steinbart is a homebrew supply store on SE 12th Avenue in Portland, Oregon.
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Fermentation lock
A fermentation lock or fermentation airlock is a device used in beer brewing and wine making that allows carbon dioxide released during fermentation to escape the fermenter, while not allowing air to enter the fermenter, thus avoiding oxidation.
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Finings
Finings are substances that are usually added at or near the completion of the processing of making wine, beer, and various nonalcoholic juice beverages.
Flip-top
A flip-top, swing-top, lightning toggle, or Quillfeldt stopper (after the inventor, Charles de Quillfeldt) is a type of bail closure frequently used for bottles containing carbonated beverages, such as beer or mineral water.
Free software
Free software, libre software, libreware or rarely known as freedom-respecting software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions.
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Fruit wine
Fruit wines are fermented alcoholic beverages made from a variety of base ingredients (other than grapes); they may also have additional flavors taken from fruits, flowers, and herbs.
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Glucose
Glucose is a sugar with the molecular formula.
Gough Whitlam
Edward Gough Whitlam (11 July 191621 October 2014) was the 21st prime minister of Australia, serving from 1972 to 1975.
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Grolsch Brewery
Grolsch Brewery (Koninklijke Grolsch N.V. - "Royal Grolsch"), known simply as Grolsch, is a Dutch brewery founded in 1615 by Willem Neerfeldt in Groenlo.
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Hansard
Hansard is the transcripts of parliamentary debates in Britain and many Commonwealth countries.
History of alcoholic drinks
Purposeful production of alcoholic drinks is common and often reflects cultural and religious peculiarities as much as geographical and sociological conditions.
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History of beer
Beer is one of the oldest human-produced drinks.
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History of wine
The oldest evidence of ancient wine production has been found in Georgia and Syria from BC (the earliest known traces of grape wine), Iran from BC, Greece from BC, Armenia from BC (large-scale production), and Sicily from BC.
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HM Revenue and Customs
His Majesty's Revenue and Customs (commonly HM Revenue and Customs, or HMRC) is a non-ministerial department of the UK Government responsible for the collection of taxes, the payment of some forms of state support, the administration of other regulatory regimes including the national minimum wage and the issuance of national insurance numbers.
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Hydrometer
A hydrometer or lactometer is an instrument used for measuring density or relative density of liquids based on the concept of buoyancy.
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Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution.
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Industrialisation
Industrialisation (UK) or industrialization (US) is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society.
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Iraq
Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.
Jimmy Carter
James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981.
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Keg
A keg is a small cask.
Lager
Lager is a type of beer brewed and conditioned at low temperature.
Lautering
Lautering is the beer brewing process that separates the mash into clear liquid wort and residual grain.
Lees (fermentation)
Lees are deposits of dead yeast or residual yeast and other particles that precipitate, or are carried by the action of "fining", to the bottom of a vat of wine after fermentation and aging.
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Liquor
Liquor or distilled beverage is an alcoholic drink produced by the distillation of grains, fruits, vegetables, or sugar that have already gone through alcoholic fermentation.
List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1880
This is a complete list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the year 1880.
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List of fermented foods
This is a list of fermented foods, which are foods produced or preserved by the action of microorganisms.
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Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur (27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the last of which was named after him.
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Maize
Maize (Zea mays), also known as corn in North American English, is a tall stout grass that produces cereal grain.
Malt
Malt is any cereal grain that has been made to germinate by soaking in water and then stopped from germinating further by drying with hot air, a process known as "malting".
Maltose
Maltose, also known as maltobiose or malt sugar, is a disaccharide formed from two units of glucose joined with an α(1→4) bond. In the isomer isomaltose, the two glucose molecules are joined with an α(1→6) bond. Maltose is the two-unit member of the amylose homologous series, the key structural motif of starch.
Mashing
In brewing and distilling, mashing is the process of combining a mix of ground grains – typically malted barley with supplementary grains such as corn, sorghum, rye, or wheat (known as the "grain bill") with water and then heating the mixture.
Mead
Mead, also called hydromel (particularly when low in alcohol content), is an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting honey mixed with water, and sometimes with added ingredients such as fruits, spices, grains, or hops.
Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent.
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Ming dynasty
The Ming dynasty, officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.
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Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology is the manipulation of matter with at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometers (nm).
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Neolithic
The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.
Oat
The oat (Avena sativa), sometimes called the common oat, is a species of cereal grain grown for its seed, which is known by the same name (usually in the plural).
Prehistory of China
The earliest human occupation of what is now China dates to the Lower Paleolithic —attested by archaeological finds such as the Yuanmou Man.
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President of the United States
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.
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Prime minister
A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system.
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Prohibition
Prohibition is the act or practice of forbidding something by law; more particularly the term refers to the banning of the manufacture, storage (whether in barrels or in bottles), transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcoholic beverages.
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Prohibition in the United States
The Prohibition era was the period from 1920 to 1933 when the United States prohibited the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages.
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Reginald Maudling
Reginald Maudling (7 March 1917 – 14 February 1979) was a British politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1962 to 1964 and as Home Secretary from 1970 to 1972.
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Rice wine
Rice wine is a generic term for an alcoholic beverage fermented from rice, traditionally consumed in East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia.
Rye
Rye (Secale cereale) is a grass grown extensively as a grain, a cover crop and a forage crop.
Shilling
The shilling is a historical coin, and the name of a unit of modern currencies formerly used in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, other British Commonwealth countries and Ireland, where they were generally equivalent to 12 pence or one-twentieth of a pound before being phased out during the 1960s and 1970s.
Slavery in antiquity
Slavery in the ancient world, from the earliest known recorded evidence in Sumer to the pre-medieval Antiquity Mediterranean cultures, comprised a mixture of debt-slavery, slavery as a punishment for crime, and the enslavement of prisoners of war.
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Soft drink
A soft drink (see § Terminology for other names) is any water-based flavored drink, usually but not necessarily carbonated, and typically including added sweetener.
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Software
Software consists of computer programs that instruct the execution of a computer.
Sour beer
Sour beer is beer which has an intentionally acidic, tart, or sour taste.
South African Revenue Service
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) is the revenue service of the South African government.
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Sucrose
Sucrose, a disaccharide, is a sugar composed of glucose and fructose subunits.
Surety
In finance, a surety, surety bond, or guaranty involves a promise by one party to assume responsibility for the debt obligation of a borrower if that borrower defaults.
Syrup
In cooking, syrup (less commonly sirup; from شراب;, beverage, wine and sirupus) is a condiment that is a thick, viscous liquid consisting primarily of a solution of sugar in water, containing a large amount of dissolved sugars but showing little tendency to deposit crystals.
Tang dynasty
The Tang dynasty (唐朝), or the Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an interregnum between 690 and 705.
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The Birmingham News
The Birmingham News was the principal newspaper for Birmingham, Alabama, United States in the latter half of the 20th Century and the first quarter of the 21st.
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Thermometer
A thermometer is a device that measures temperature (the degree of hotness or coldness of an object) or temperature gradient (the rates of change of temperature in space).
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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United States Congress
The United States Congress, or simply Congress, is the legislature of the federal government of the United States.
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Voile
Voile (French for veil) is a soft, sheer fabric, usually made of 99% cotton or cotton blended with linen or polyester.
Wheat
Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain that is a staple food around the world.
Wine
Wine is an alcoholic drink made from fermented fruit.
Winemaking
Winemaking, wine-making, or vinification is the production of wine, starting with the selection of the fruit, its fermentation into alcohol, and the bottling of the finished liquid.
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Women in brewing
Women have been active in brewing since ancient times.
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World History Encyclopedia
World History Encyclopedia (formerly Ancient History Encyclopedia) is a nonprofit educational company created in 2009 by Jan van der Crabben.
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Wort
Wort is the liquid extracted from the mashing process during the brewing of beer or whisky.
Zhou dynasty
The Zhou dynasty was a royal dynasty of China that existed for 789 years from until 256 BC, the longest of such reign in Chinese history.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrewing
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