Beer has long become one of the indispensable beverages for outings or home brewing. Whether it's mainstream industrial beer or sophisticated craft beer, there are plenty of fans who appreciate it. Today, I'm going to introduce you to Fukujia Wheat White Beer. According to the brewing method, it seems like it can be considered a craft beer, but in terms of popularity, it's not quite there. Let's just call it a craft beer entry-level product!

Before we start introducing this beer, let's briefly explain some brewing knowledge. This is really helpful for consumers to select beers that suit their tastes.

How is beer brewed

Beer is made withbarley, hops, and wateras the main ingredients, and brewed through fermentation with yeast, resulting in a low-alcohol beverage containing carbon dioxide. In addition, because beer is rich in various nutrients, such as water, carbohydrates, protein, carbon dioxide, vitamins, and calcium and phosphorus, it is often called 'liquid bread'.

The picture shows the beer brewing process: Roasted barley is first crushed by a machine, then added to water for saccharification, followed by filtering out the residue, boiling, adding hops, and then after settling, yeast is added for fermentation. After a certain period of time, it becomes the beer we can drink.

From the above introduction, we can see that the core ingredients for beer production include barley, hops, and yeast. All the bitterness in beer comes from hops, and most of the aroma also comes from hops. A small part of the flavor comes from the aroma of yeast and barley.

What is craft beer?

Before introducing craft beer, we need to know what industrial pale beer is. Industrial pale beer refers to beers like Yanjing, Snow, Tsingtao, and Harbin – common domestic beers, characterized by large-scale production, using additives to stabilize beer quality, but the barley in the ingredients uses rice to replace barley. The use of rice instead of barley is because rice is cheaper and has a higher sugar extraction rate than barley, which can produce a higher initial wort concentration, and the cost is lower.

Craft beer, on the other hand, doesn't use barley substitutes, and the varieties of hops, yeast, and barley are extremely diverse. Various spices, seasonings, and fruits and vegetables can also be used in the brewing process, using various wooden barrels and endless methods to create works of art, resulting in different colors and flavors, making it one of the most changeable beverages in the world.

If we summarize the differences between craft beer and industrial beer in one sentence, it's that craft beer pursues uniqueness and flavor, while industrial beer pursues industrial standardization.

Fukujia White Beer

Next, let's talk about our main character today, Fukujia White Beer. As we said before, the different flavors of craft beers are due to the fact that in addition to barley and hops, other things are added. From the Fukujia White Beer ingredient list, we can see that it also adds orange peel, coriander seeds (coriander seeds), and citric acid. Therefore, the taste will have a very obvious fruity flavor.

Furthermore, Fukujia White Beer uses the classic Ale brewing top-fermentation technology, and it is unfiltered, so the body will present a relatively viscous cloudy state, and the taste will be slightly smoother than industrial beer, which is quite different.

For those who don't like bitterness, this beer is very suitable, because the shallow baking of wheat makes this beer without any bitterness. Use the Fukujia recommended shaking drinking method, feel the thick foam, it feels great, and it's also recommended to drink it after chilling.

A six-pointed cup can be discussed separately. At the time when wine glasses were scarce in ancient times, people liked to use jam jars to drink beer, which gradually evolved into a six-pointed cup, and the shape of the jam jar was preserved.

Okay, that's the end of today's experience. For those who are tired of industrial pale beer and want to try something new, Fukujia White Beer is a very good choice.