Beer style: dark ale
Alcohol content: 6.2%
Packaging: 500 ml
Full carton: 24 x 500 ml
Unfiltered and unpasteurized.
Ingredients: Hubeljska water, barley malt (gluten), Slovenian hops Styrian Aurora, yeast.
Black Aurora is a dark ale with chocolate tones, complemented by the aromatics of the legendary Slovenian Aurora hops. The dark ale represents the sum of all our knowledge to date, which is best shown in the balance, drinkability and roundness of this dark, chocolate-coffee brew.
The name Black Aurora is made up of barley malt and hops. In addition to light barley malts, it contains as much as 10% of various dark and specialty barley malts, including the Black Patent Malt after which it is named. The array of barley malts gives the beer its color and all the flavors of bread, coffee, cocoa and chocolate that we discover with every sip.
Black Aurora received the prestigious "BEST IN SHOW" award at the 2019 CEBC European Beer Awards in Budapest.
AJDOVŠČINA, BUDAPEST, January 28, 2019 – At the end of last week in Budapest, our dark beer Black Aurora won two important awards at the Central European Brewers Conference (CEBC), the main craft brewing event for all of Central Europe. Black Aurora swept the entire competition of craft beers from all over Europe and won the award for the best submitted beer of the entire event (Best in Show) and a bronze medal in the English Porter category, in which gold and silver medals were not awarded.
What made this award special was the prestigious list of judges who evaluated the beers:
- Evan Rail: New York Times journalist and international judge (International Beer Challenge London, World Beer Idol, Stockholm Beer, Birra dell'Anno Italy)
- Tim Webb: Author of numerous books on beer and international judge.
- Michael Kiser: Director of the Good Beer Hunting program, journalist and international judge.
- Phil Lowry: Simply Hops representative, brewer and international judge.
- Shane McNamara: Advanced Cicerone® and Accredited Beer Sommelier.
- Lana Svitankova: Brewer, BJCP judge, Cicerone Beer Server, Apprentice Beercierge, member of the British Guild of Beer Writers and the Pink Boots Society.
- Vásárhelyi István: Beer judge.
- Baranyai Zsolt: Longtime beer judge and beer blogger.
- Tibor Bajkai: Founder of the Hungarian Home Brewers Association and beer judge.
- Peter Takacs: Owner of a distribution center for brewing raw materials and long-time beer judge.
What does it mean if beers are top or bottom fermented?
Top fermentation is most often associated with ale-type beers. It is a method of alcoholic fermentation that occurs in beer when active yeasts rise to the surface of the wort and form a crown (a kind of yeast foam) on it. The yeast is predominantly Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, which is colloquially called ale yeast. Such yeasts prefer higher fermentation temperatures, approximately 15 to 25 degrees.
The opposite is true for bottom-fermenting yeasts, which are associated with lager-type beers. This fermentation takes place at the bottom of the container. It is predominantly Saccharomyces Pastorianus yeast, or lager yeast. Such yeasts prefer lower fermentation temperatures, around 5 to 10 degrees.
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