What's the difference between beer and wort?

Beer


Definition:

  • (n.) A fermented liquor made from any malted grain, but commonly from barley malt, with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor.
  • (n.) A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It’s a bright, simple space with wooden tables and high stalls and offers tastings and beer-making workshops.
  • (2) AB InBev has cut costs ruthlessly as it has bought up companies around the world, including Anheuser-Busch, the brewer of US beer Budweiser.
  • (3) These results suggest that smoking and beer consumption are independent risk factors for colonic adenomas.
  • (4) A total of 194 beers (148 US and 46 Canadian) were analysed for volatile N-nitrosamines.
  • (5) Beer had been brewed at the site continuously since the 16th century, in 1831 becoming the home of brewers Young & Co, which maintained the pub that gave the brewery its name.
  • (6) We continue to offer customers a great range of beer, lager and cider.” Heineken’s bid to raise prices for its products in supermarkets comes just a few months after it put 6p on a pint in pubs , a decision it blamed on the weak pound.
  • (7) The brewery kept winning trophies at the Australian International Beer Awards year in, year out, yet its head brewer refused to send beer east until he could guarantee refrigerated transport.
  • (8) Others, like eight-year-old Stan – who was playing football with his mates in a corner of the beer-soaked field, has only good memories of Wales.
  • (9) The main cause of oesophageal cancer in western countries is consumption of alcoholic beverages, the degree of risk being much greater for certain spirits than for wine or beer.
  • (10) Per adult (greater than or equal to 15 years) consumption of beer, wine, spirits and absolute alcohol for a 14-year period (1971--1984) was related to female breast cancer morbidity rates in Western Australia.
  • (11) In the UK, alcohol consumption has shifted substantially from moderate strength beer sold in pubs to strong lager, cider, wine and spirits sold by supermarkets for drinking at home.
  • (12) I’ve known them for over 10 years,” said Eugene Ward, 43, clutching a bag of water bottles and beer cans.
  • (13) Duty on beer, wine and spirits will increase as planned from midnight Sunday • Tobacco duty will rise immediately by 1% above inflation this year, then 2% • Increase in fuel duty to be staged.
  • (14) Turning water into beer With support from the government, Cerut gave out small grants of around €1,000 to more than 200 women to invest in businesses such as farming, soft drinks processing and cattle-rearing.
  • (15) A cooler full of beer is usually at hand, though swimming attire typically isn't.
  • (16) In between, I watch a parade of Berliner life: women chain-smoking in the pool’s trademark wicker chairs, fully clothed men sipping a morning beer in the 26C heat, kids jumping off the diving pier and screaming down the large waterslide.
  • (17) Camden Town is a creative business with a great range of brands that will complement our existing portfolio.” Mark Benner, managing director of the Society of Independent Brewers (Siba) said: “As craft beer continues to grow in popularity and steal market share we are likely to see more global brewers looking to take over craft breweries, something which makes membership to Siba even more important for breweries looking to differentiate themselves, as consumers look to seek out truly independent craft brewed beers.” • This article was amended on 21 December 2015 because Guinness is owned by Diageo, not SAB Miller as an earlier version said.
  • (18) "What I realised is that the most important thing is China," he says, cradling a beer and still wearing his trademark cowboy-style wide-rimmed hat.
  • (19) And failing that, drink a Diet Coke and a beer simultaneously just before you go in.
  • (20) Changes in the nature of the heme group have been monitored by visible absorption spectrophotometry and analysed quantitatively by a multiple wavelength method based on Beer's Law.

Wort


Definition:

  • (n.) A plant of any kind.
  • (n.) Cabbages.
  • (n.) An infusion of malt which is unfermented, or is in the act of fermentation; the sweet infusion of malt, which ferments and forms beer; hence, any similar liquid in a state of incipient fermentation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The most active were oak bark, sage and St. John's wort grass WAG extracts, horse radish root and leaf AG extracts, celandine grass WA extract; bur marigold and yarrow grass WA extracts were active towards S. aureus.
  • (2) It is interesting to speculate on how different our thinking on ethanol tolerance would be today if sake fermentations had not evolved with successive mashing and simultaneous saccharification and fermentation of rice carbohydrate, if distillers' worts were clarified prior to fermentation but brewers' wort were not, and if grape skins with their associated unsaturated lipids had not been an integral part of red wine musts.
  • (3) Attracting particular controversy was a comment article in the Luxemburger Wort , a paper traditionally supportive of Juncker.
  • (4) Muscarine has been iso lared in a yield of 0.013 percent from mycelia of Clitocybe rivulosa grown in the laboratory on a medium supple mented with beer wort.
  • (5) The influence of extracts from oak bark, St. John's-wort leaves and pine buds on natural immunity characteristics of mice has been studied.
  • (6) Tom Wort, a linebacker from Crawley, West Sussex , above, saw his stock slip in a frustrating final season with the University of Oklahoma, but should still be selected in the latter rounds.
  • (7) No cyclopiazonic acid was produced in vitro by Penicillium nalgoviensis strains from the Czechoslovak collection on sweet wort agar containing peptone from soybean.
  • (8) This structure is an insert relative to the liver-wort.
  • (9) The content of sterols in the yeast Candida boidinii is low: 0.35--0.40% in a mineral medium with methanol as a sole carbon source; 0.55--0.60% in a medium with ethanol; 0.50--0.60% in a medium with glucose; 0.50--0.55% on wort--agar.
  • (10) If echinacea is the Lemsip of the herbal pharmacopia and St John's Wort the Prozac, kava kava is the valium.
  • (11) Analytical methods for the determination of polyphenols of malt, barley, hop, wort, and beer are described.
  • (12) These experiments revealed that the diacetyl concentration in wort fermented by the plasmid-containing yeast strain was significantly lower than that in wort fermented by the parental strain.
  • (13) The effects of the flow rates of the wort on the period of the primary fermentation and the diacetyl levels in green beer were studied under the conditions of the volume fraction of gel beads at phi = 0.40, the fermentation temperature at 10 degrees C, and the ratio of circulation at n = 5.
  • (14) As a result of long continuous fermentation of brewing wort by fixed yeast cells, the number of cells in the fermenter increased as well as their wet weight.
  • (15) St. John's wort (Hypercum perforatum) contains hypericin and hypericin-like substances as well as flavonoids, of which particularly Quercetin has generated a wide-spread controversial discussion with respect to mutagenic action.
  • (16) The thermotolerant yeast Candida tropicalis, strain T-20, was cultivated on a chemically defined medium with glucose or malt wort in flasks with shaking at three temperatures: optimal (36degreesC), supraoptimal (38degreesC) and submaximal (41degreesC).
  • (17) Thus, first and finished wort caused only a minor acid response which was 48% and 46% of maximal acid output.
  • (18) Extracts of Hypericum perforatum (Psychotonin M) (St. John's wort) with known concentrations of hypericin were tested in several models generally accepted as screening methods in experimental animal studies for the recognition of psychotropic, and in particular of antidepressant activity.
  • (19) Extract from oak cork, St. John's wort leaves and flowers and pine buds possess more pronounced bactericidal properties with respect to staphylococci, shigellae, Escherichia coli than decoctions from these medicinal plants.
  • (20) The effect of ammonium ions on the activity of alcohol:NAD-, L-malate:NAD-, L-glutamate:NADP-oxidoreductases was studied in wine yeast during fermentation of wine wort containing 18% of sugar, and also after the biomass cultivated in the conditions of nitrogen deficiency had been transferred to media with various amounts of nitrogen and carbohydrates.

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