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- Rack
- To move beer from one vessel to another.
- Rauchbier
- A dark, bottom-fermented beer produced by a few breweries
in Bavaria. Unique smoked flavor from the use of malts dried over an
open fire.
- Relax
- To set at ease.RELAX have a homebrew.
- Respiration
- Prior to fermentation yeast store up oxygen for further
use.
- Rest
- A length of time the mash stays at one temperature.
- Retorrefication
- To heat the grist prior to mashing to lessen the temperature drop.
- Rice Beer
- See Sake.
- Roasted Malt
- Some malts are roasted to varying degrees to produce a
range of specialty malts called caramel, chocolate, and black malts.
These malts affect the color and the flavor of beer.
- Rousing
- Stiring and redistributing settled yeast.
- Russian Stout
- In Britain, a very strong stout originally brewed from
1760 to World War 1. Present day Russian stout is non-pasteurized and
matured in casks for two months, then bottle-aged for a full year. Also
called Imperial Russian stout or Imperial stout.