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Bock A type of lager-style beer.

Boiling The process of vigorously heating sweet wort at boiling temperatures.

Bottom fermentation Traditional fermentation mode for lagers; yeast collects at base of fermenter.

Bracteoles The leafy parts of a hop cone.

Breakdown Deterioration of a beer.

Break point The stage during kilning of malt when the temperature of the air leaving the malt starts to increase, because all of the free water that is not inside the malt has been driven off. Whenever there is unbound water present, it will consume energy (latent heat) in order to escape, essentially as steam. If this free water is taking up the heat, then the air coming off the kiln remains relatively cool.

Brewhouse The part of the brewery where grist materials are converted into wort.

Brewster A female brewer.

Bright beer Beer post filtration.

Bright beer tank The vessel to which a beer is run after filtration and before packaging; sometimes called a fine ale tank.

Bromate A salt; has been employed (as potassium bromate) in order to suppress rootlet development during germination of barley.

Burtonization Adjustment of the salt content of brewing liquor to render it similar to that of the water at Burtonon- Trent in England.

Calandria A device either internally or externally linked to a kettle and used for heating wort.

Calcofluor A substance that binds specifically to _-glucans and reveals them via fluorescence.