Cicerone® Syllabus Topics
Certified Beer Server Candidate scope · 10 topic articles
Keeping and Serving Beer
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I. Keeping and Serving Beer / F. Serving bottled beer
2. Examine Bottle
Inspect the beer identity, package size, date code or best-by date when present, closure condition, and visible sediment or haze.
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I. Keeping and Serving Beer / F. Serving bottled beer
4. Final Bottle Check
After opening and during the first pour, check aroma, appearance, carbonation behavior, and the bottle opening.
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I. Keeping and Serving Beer / F. Serving bottled beer
5. Pouring Bottled Beer
Use a beer-clean glass, pour down the side at first, then straighten the glass to build an appropriate foam collar.
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Beer Flavor and Evaluation
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Beer Ingredients and Brewing Processes
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IV. Beer Ingredients and Brewing Processes / A. Ingredients
1. Grains
Brewing grains provide fermentable sugars, color, body, foam potential, and malt-derived flavor.
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IV. Beer Ingredients and Brewing Processes / A. Ingredients
3. Yeast
Yeast is pitched into cooled wort, consumes fermentable sugars, and creates alcohol and carbon dioxide.
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IV. Beer Ingredients and Brewing Processes / B. Brewing Process Overview
6. Chilling
Hot wort must be cooled after the boil and whirlpool before yeast is added.
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IV. Beer Ingredients and Brewing Processes / B. Brewing Process Overview
7. Fermentation
Yeast is pitched into cooled wort and consumes sugars.
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IV. Beer Ingredients and Brewing Processes / B. Brewing Process Overview
8. Maturation and Lagering
After primary fermentation, beer may need time for yeast and flavor to stabilize.
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IV. Beer Ingredients and Brewing Processes / B. Brewing Process Overview
9. Clarification
Breweries may clarify beer through settling, filtration, centrifugation, finings, or other methods.
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