Simply put, beer is ultimately an ancient drink (let alone history today) and is currently the third most consumed (behind water and tea). So as a drink, Beer King must adapt to the needs of people from all walks of life, just like people in different places are drinking tea, but the style is very different.
The earliest beers were just slightly fermented barley juice, a slightly alcoholic drink. According to the temperature and the different types of yeast (humans didn't know what it was at that time), they were divided into Lager and Ale. The difference between them was the fermentation location. Lager was fermenting. The lower part of the barrel is fermented at a low temperature, and the ale is fermented in a warm environment above. For example, most of the reactions of men when they see women turn into lower body thinking, so Rag is more common than Al. All Chinese beers, Heineken, Carlsberg, Budweiser, and many German beers belong to this category, simple and unscrupulous. But this is not the case. Lagers are actually more difficult to ferment in small batches than ale, because the temperature requirements are relatively low, but later industrial production solved this problem. Lagers are mildly fermented, can be mass-produced, pure in body, and light in taste. , which is the root cause of its popularity. Compared with lager, Ayre is more literary and artistic. The Benelux region, the Nordic countries, and the United Kingdom all have this style. This kind of wine is high-end and atmospheric, so most of the beer craft brews refer to these.
In the Middle Ages, the water quality in northern Europe was poor, but people didn't like to drink boiled water, so a group of monks in Belgium began to use boiled water to brew beer, which could be used as water and tasted good. Everyone thinks that beer is a drink, so there is no need to ban beer. Later, it became more and more popular, so Belgium became a self-contained one, Abbeybeer, we said blond (Golden Ai), double (double material), triple (three materials), brown (brown Ai) and even quadruple (four materials). Yes. As a result, the water quality in the United Kingdom and Ireland is more exaggerated, super hard (calcium sulfate), in order to cover up the taste, they can only use a lot of roasted malt, lower the pH value, and use the malt caramel to cover up the water quality taste, so there is Porter (Porter) ). Later, everyone felt that the aroma of burnt was not cool enough, and a little more paste tasted better, and there was Stout, which was later upgraded to Imperial stout. These wines are generally characterized by high alcohol content. Later, the British colonized India, and the beer was easy to go bad after being shipped by sea. They found that putting hops in it can keep the quality, so a new variety appeared: Indian Pale Ale, the legendary IPA (Indian
Pale Ale, Indian pale Ale), the more people who drink it, the more popular it is, but this wine has nothing to do with half a cent in India.
The Czechs and Germans said that our water is good, and it is good to drink it. So they use the most basic malt and the simplest fermentation, and the beer that comes out is already great. Pilsner, Wit beer, weizen beer, and Dunkel beer appeared in this way, with the same basic style, highlighting the most original malt flavor, and then as a lager The leader in the world swept the world. These wines have low alcohol content and can be replaced by many substitutes. The cost is low and suitable for industrial production. Therefore, more than 90% of the world is monopolized by this wine, and it has reached 100% in China.
Later, a country called the United States appeared in this world, and the situation was even worse. The water was not good, not even the malt. But there is no such thing as a perfect road. The United States is particularly suitable for the growth of hops. Coupled with the development of agriculture, hops are moving towards high quality and low price. So the old American brewers began to use hops to death, and various legendary IPAs appeared. Of course, the United States called itself APA (American Light Ai), and just changed the name of the previous country. Later, with the development of various businesses in the United States and the strong demand, the United States is now the center of the world's craft beer, which is a lot more than others. Various types of high-end wines have appeared in the United States.
There are also some more exotic wines, such as Brussels Southwest Generation, Belgium, where there is a lot of wild yeast in the air, and there is a Lambic wine that uses this yeast like Champagne. After three years of fermentation in barrels, it is also drunk, but it is the only place in the world that can produce it.
Of course, there are other fruit wines, seasonal Saison (Saison), Bock (Bock), Germans still love to name their own cities, such as Bavaria (Barvaria), Cologne (Kölsch beer), Vienna (Vienne) ) also named a Viennese wine, but both were similar.