Brown beer

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Brown beer is an outdated term for barley beers .

In several regions in Central Europe, only barley and wheat were permitted as brewing grain for centuries . To distinguish between white beers , which are brewed from wheat and barley, simple, pure barley beers were called brown beer. In comparison to wheat beers, brown beers were regarded as a simple everyday drink. In Bavaria, from the 18th century onwards, brown beer was a strong, bottom-fermented barley beer, while every top-fermented beer was called wheat beer.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Starke , From the brewing trade to the brewing industry: the history of beer brewing in Dresden and Saxony 1800-1914 , Böhlau Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3412174041 , pp. 28-29
  2. ↑ Holger Starke, Vom Brauerhandwerk zur Brauindustrie, p. 86