What Do Some of These Words on Craft Brewery Menus Actually Mean?
You can’t be a true beer snob without being hip to the idiosyncratic language of the beer snob world. Drink and learn, friends.
Brettanomyces, pronounced brett-an-oh-MY-seez (or ‘brett’ for short) is a strain of wild yeast that lends beers earthy, funky, tropical fruit flavours.
Imperial, usually applied to stouts and sometimes IPAs, signals big, bold flavours and high alcohol content. The legend goes that 18th-century English brewers exporting to the Baltics made