HOS101
Food & Beverage Operations
Management
Topic 7 – Alcoholic Beverage
(Beers, Spirits and Cocktails)
, Today’s Topics
• Beers
• Spirits
• Liqueurs
• Cocktails
, Beer
Beer is a beverage made by fermenting malted barley, with addition of
hops for flavour.
INGREDIENTS
Malted Barley: barley (a basic cereal) that has been
steeped (soaked in water) and allowed to germinate,
producing sugar for fermentation.
Dark beers are made with roasted barley
Hops: Vine fruit: add flavour – bitter and pungent
Yeast: Transforms the malted
barley sugars into alcohol and carbon dioxide
Water: approximately 90%
, Ale vs Lager
The two different categories of beer differ in the type of yeast used to brew them and
the temperature at which they are brewed.
ALE LAGER
• Top Fermented Bottom fermented
• Ales are typically complex in flavour Is a sparkling style beer of pale to
due to more flavour extracted from medium golden colour
the hops Fermentation temp is around 8 – 10
degrees C
• Fermentation temp 17 - 24 degrees C
assisting with flavour development Lagers are aged longer and at colder
temperatures.
• Can be light in colour or darker Lager is aged under refrigeration for 6
depending on the required final weeks to 6 months
product Lagers will generally be crisp and
• Darker ales are made by roasting the clean
barley before mixing with water and Lager was originally brewed in
fermentation Northern Europe
Food & Beverage Operations
Management
Topic 7 – Alcoholic Beverage
(Beers, Spirits and Cocktails)
, Today’s Topics
• Beers
• Spirits
• Liqueurs
• Cocktails
, Beer
Beer is a beverage made by fermenting malted barley, with addition of
hops for flavour.
INGREDIENTS
Malted Barley: barley (a basic cereal) that has been
steeped (soaked in water) and allowed to germinate,
producing sugar for fermentation.
Dark beers are made with roasted barley
Hops: Vine fruit: add flavour – bitter and pungent
Yeast: Transforms the malted
barley sugars into alcohol and carbon dioxide
Water: approximately 90%
, Ale vs Lager
The two different categories of beer differ in the type of yeast used to brew them and
the temperature at which they are brewed.
ALE LAGER
• Top Fermented Bottom fermented
• Ales are typically complex in flavour Is a sparkling style beer of pale to
due to more flavour extracted from medium golden colour
the hops Fermentation temp is around 8 – 10
degrees C
• Fermentation temp 17 - 24 degrees C
assisting with flavour development Lagers are aged longer and at colder
temperatures.
• Can be light in colour or darker Lager is aged under refrigeration for 6
depending on the required final weeks to 6 months
product Lagers will generally be crisp and
• Darker ales are made by roasting the clean
barley before mixing with water and Lager was originally brewed in
fermentation Northern Europe
