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Conditioning

Most beer can be bottled or kegged straight from the fermenter, whether it has been racked or not. However, there are some beers that benefit from further conditioning before being put into bottles or a keg.

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Hops

Beer with no hops would be very sweet and fairly tasteless. It's the bitterness of the hops that balances the residual sweetness of the malt, and adds aroma and flavour.

Hops are the flower cone of Humulus lupulus, a vine related to cannabis. Only the female plant produces flower cones, which are light and the consistency of tissue paper.

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Beer & drinking quotes

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer."

Henry Lawson

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