Black beer
Black beer is a type of beer . Black beers are dark, full beers, which today - unlike in the past - are mostly bottom-fermented . The alcohol content is usually between 4.8 and 5% vol.
Manufacturing
Its dark color gets dark beer mostly through the use of dark Braumalzes or Röstmalzes - which gives it the typical roasted Note -, more rarely, by color beer . The original wort content is at least 11 °.
history
The roots of this type of beer can be found in Thuringia , Saxony and Brandenburg . The earliest documented mention in Thuringia dates back to 1543. The oldest known black beer is the " Braunschweiger Mumme " , which has been brewed in Braunschweig since the Middle Ages (first documented mention in 1390) .
During the GDR era, black beer was a niche product that was largely exported to Hungary. After reunification, it was successfully marketed as a specialty. The market leader in Germany is the Köstritzer Schwarzbierbrauerei , which was able to increase its production in the period from 1989 to 2011 from 12,000 to around 380,000 hectoliters per year. Black beer has a market share of 1.6 percent in Germany.
More varieties
Other well-known dark beer types are Altbier ( Niederrhein ), Dunkelbier (Dunkles Export) or lager (southern Germany, especially Bavaria ), dark wheat beer (Bavaria) and Stout and Porter (United Kingdom and Ireland).
A mixed beer drink consisting of black beer and cola is known under the names Greifswalder, Dunkles Radler , Schwarzer Diesel or Schmutziges . In southern Germany, however, a dark shandy is a mixture of dark beer and lemonade.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Deutscher Brauerbund: Schwarzbier ( Memento of the original from April 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Andreas Hummel: GDR specialty is experiencing a rebirth ( memento from May 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Südwest Presse, July 25, 2011
