Название "зеленое пиво" достаточно часто refers to the beer semi-finished product, that is, the immature beverage. 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 - an unusual drink, exotic. It is produced in the Czech Republic, China, Ireland, Australia, Germany, Japan and Russia.
What make green beer?
Most often used for cookingtraditional ingredients (malt, hops, yeast) and secret ingredients. In China, for example, bamboo is added, in Japan and Australia - algae, in Russia - lime juice.
However, all these additives can change the taste.quality drink. Therefore, in Ireland, ale is tinted with a blue dye, as this allows preserving the initial beer taste. In the Czech Republic they brew a special beer according to a secret recipe - it has a pronounced green color and a bitter taste.
Green beer from China
Tanuki - Traditional Chinese Bamboo Beerbright green color, having a fortress of no more than five degrees. The taste of this naptik is not quite normal, but rather soft and pleasant, with grassy notes. Tanuki foam is not dense and quickly diverges. This drink goes well with kreverki, sushi, noodles, rolls, pork or fried beef, very fried.
For the manufacture of tanuki use a specialbamboo variety Psyllostachys, native to China. In September-October, the leaves are cut off, carefully picked, dried and then sorted. In the future, extracts supplied to the USA and Europe are obtained from bamboo leaves, since the tree does not grow in these regions. In Canada, the juice and leaves of bamboo grown in greenhouses are used.
Chinese manufacturers adhere to traditional methods of brewing, only slightly changing the composition of the drink.
Prepare beer by fermenting grain must(rice or barley), adding to it hops. And as the main ingredient used juice or bamboo extract. The mixture is boiled, filtered, and after cooling, saturated with oxygen and injected brewer's yeast (often bottom fermentation). A few weeks later, the mash is poured into barrels, and then into special vats in which the mixture is kept under high pressure and at a temperature of no more than two degrees. After that, green beer is filtered and bottled.
Chinese bamboo beer is quite a useful product, because it contains only natural ingredients, and the percentage of alcohol is low. Such a drink is able to remove toxins and slags from the body.
You can try the cocktail "Fresh". Ingredients for it are gin (one part), green beer (four parts), ice and a sprig of mint.
Green Thursday and Zelene pivo
Не так давно (c 2006 года) в Чехии появилась unusual tradition: on Pascha Thursday (Easter Eve) green beer is served in restaurants. This is explained by the fact that on Green Thursday (we call it Clean), the priests of the country wear green clothes.
Green beer (its name is Zelene pivo) isThirteen-degree foamy drink, which is prepared from traditional ingredients, but with the addition of herbal extract. This gives the beer a natural green hue. The secret of cooking his company Starobrno holds in the strictest confidence.
In addition to Starobrno production of green beerengaged brewery Lobcowicz. There are two options for serving the drink: pure 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, the whole of Ireland dresses ingreen and celebrates St. Patrick's Day. Previously, this day had a purely religious significance, today the Irish pubs have become the central place for festivities. A few days before the celebration, everything in Ireland is literally everything from beards and costumes to beer.
Irish green beer, the composition of which is no different from the usual, tinted blue food dye, and thus acquires a beautiful emerald hue.
Emerald beer. Cook at home
If you decide to surprise guests or brightly celebrate St. Patrick's Day, you can make green beer at home.
This will require:
- beer glass;
- a small amount of green dye (of course, food);
- regular light beer;
- spoon for mixing the resulting drink.
Manufacturing process:
- You need to slowly pour the beer into the glass (it is better to fill half or a third of the container).
- Add three or four drops of dye.
- Slowly mix the contents with a spoon.
- Top up remaining beer to the top of the glass.
Instead of food coloring can be usedBlue Curacao blue liquor (20 ml of liquor per half liter of beer). When it is added, the drink will also turn green (this cocktail, by the way, is called the Green Dragon).
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