Ale vs Beer
Just a quick post this evening, had a busy evening at my kids school. I am a Trustee and Treasurer at Inly School in Scituate, MA and we had a long board meeting tonight.
I have noticed from re-reading my posts I use the words beer and ale interchangeably. I think nothing of it, I have always believed ale to be a style of beer, where beer is an all encompassing term for all fermented malt based beverages. But I appear to be wrong. I read this great post on the Ale vs Beer by Zythophile on the long battle between ale and beer. Its a long post covering over 5 centuries of history of the hopped and malted beverage but he is a great writer and I have come to enjoy his essays, taking my beer (or is that ale) geekery to new heights.
On a separate note for all beginners I wanted to highlight the completion of my getting started series. I am busy working on another series of posts (and fixing some of the old, I made some mistakes that need work) really digging into the various ingredients starting with yeast and moving onto water, hops and malt.
You can find the complete series here.
And I always thought that ale wasn't hopped whereas bitter was.
Mr Mutter, I agree. Ale was historically a malt only drink, but at some point the term Real Ale came about which included the English Pale Ale which is a bitter. Wish you could try some of these brews out, if you and the family ever want a holiday state side let me know.
And I always thought that ale wasn't hopped whereas bitter was.
Mr Mutter, I agree. Ale was historically a malt only drink, but at some point the term Real Ale came about which included the English Pale Ale which is a bitter. Wish you could try some of these brews out, if you and the family ever want a holiday state side let me know.