Honey beer
With honey beer is called Beer , which with the addition of honey is brewed. The honey is added to the wort or green beer, which means that its sugar is also fermented and the beer is only slightly sweeter.
Alternatively, finished beer can be heated and thus pasteurized and then the honey can be added. This is actually a mixed beer drink , which is unofficially called honey beer . This has a strong, sweet honey taste. The alcohol content of honey beer varies between 4.9% and 8% depending on the type.
Already the Germanic peoples added honey to their beer made from emmer and barley , based on mead . This was found when examining Germanic drinking horns . Under the conditions of the Middle Ages (before the discovery of hops for brewing), honey beer had a longer shelf life, as honey contains natural preservatives taken from bees.
Today's trade names are based on the color of the drink (GoldenDark), on the honey wine (Mede) or refer to Germanic tribes and Nordic tribes, such as Viking beer and Odinbräu .
literature
- Axel Kiesbye: Herbal Beer & Co. Fascinating new generation beers. (Fruit beers, whey beers, herbal beers, raw fruit beers, honey beers) . Stolz-Verlag, Düren 2003, ISBN 3-89778-681-8 .
