Green beer: composition and production features

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

The name "green beer" quite often refers to a beer semi-finished product, that is, an unripe drink. However, thanks to the skill of the brewers, the final color of the finished product can be changed, giving it an emerald hue. Green ale is an unusual, exotic drink. It is produced in the Czech Republic, China, Ireland, Australia, Germany, Japan and Russia.

What is green beer made of?

Most often, traditional ingredients (m alt, hops, yeast) and secret ingredients are used for cooking. In China, for example, bamboo is added, in Japan and Australia - seaweed, in Russia - lime juice.

However, all these additives can change the taste of the drink. Therefore, in Ireland, ale is tinted with blue dye, as this allows you to save the initial beer taste. In the Czech Republic, a special beer is brewed according to a secret recipe - it has a pronounced green color and a bitter taste.

Green beer from China

Tanuki is a traditional Chinese bright green bamboo beer with a strength of no more than five degrees. The taste of this drink is not quite ordinary, but quite soft andpleasant, with herbaceous notes. Tanuki's foam is not dense and quickly disperses. This drink goes well with shrimp, sushi, noodles, rolls, deep fried pork or beef.

The tanuki is made using a special variety of Psyllostachys bamboo, which grows in China. In September-October, the leaves are cut off, carefully sorted, dried, and then sorted. In the future, an extract is obtained from bamboo leaves, supplied to the USA and Europe, since the tree does not grow in these regions. In Canada, they use the juice and leaves of bamboo grown in greenhouses.

Chinese brewers stick to traditional brewing methods with only slight changes in the composition of the drink.

Beer is prepared by fermenting grain wort (rice or barley), adding hops to it. And as the main ingredient, juice or bamboo extract is used. The mixture is boiled, filtered, and after cooling it is saturated with oxygen and brewer's yeast is introduced (usually bottom-fermented). A few weeks later, the mash is poured into barrels, and then into special vats, in which the mixture is aged under high pressure and at a temperature of no more than two degrees. The green beer is then filtered and bottled.

Chinese bamboo beer is a fairly he althy product, because it contains only natural ingredients, and the percentage of alcohol is low. Such a drink is able to remove toxins and toxins from the body.

You can try the Fresh cocktail. The ingredients for it are gin (one part), green beer (four parts), ice and a sprig of mint.

Green Thursday andGreen beer

Not so long ago (since 2006) an unusual tradition appeared in the Czech Republic: on Good Thursday (Easter Eve), restaurants serve green beer. This is explained by the fact that on Green Thursday (we call it Pure) the country's priests put on green clothes.

Green beer (its name is Zelene pivo) is a thirteen-degree foamy drink, which is prepared from traditional ingredients, but with the addition of herbal extract. This is what gives the beer its natural green color. The Starobrno company keeps the secret of its preparation in the strictest confidence.

Besides Starobrno, green beer is produced by the Lobcowicz brewery. There are two options for serving the drink here: a clear dark emerald beer and a two-layer drink, which consists of red (brown-red) and green beer.

Beer from Ireland

Every year on March 17, all of Ireland dresses in green and celebrates St. Patrick's Day. Previously, this day had a purely religious significance, but today Irish pubs have become the central place for festivities. In the days leading up to the celebration, literally everything in Ireland goes green - from beards and suits to beer.

Irish green beer, the composition of which is no different from the usual, is tinted with blue food coloring, due to which it acquires a beautiful emerald hue.

Emerald beer. Cooking at home

If you want to surprise guests or celebrate St. Patrick's Day in a bright way, you can make green beer at home.

For thisrequired:

• beer glass;
• a small amount of green dye (of course, food);
• regular light beer;
• spoon for mixing the resulting drink.

Production process:

• It is necessary to slowly pour the beer into the glass (it is better to fill half or a third of the container).
• Add three to four drops of dye.



• Slowly mix the contents with a spoon.
• Pour the remaining beer to the top of the glass.

Instead of food coloring, you can use Blue Curacao blue liqueur (20 ml of liqueur per half liter of beer). When added, the drink will also turn green (this cocktail, by the way, has the name "Green Dragon").

Interesting

Besides the green beer described above, there is Kilkenny red ale and Hamanasu (produced respectively in Ireland and Japan), Ryuho Draft blue beer (Japan) and dark pink beer from Belgium Lindemans Kraek. Manufacturers surprise brewers not only with different colors of their favorite drink, but also with all sorts of unusual flavors (milk, chocolate beer, etc.).