Editing Beech (section)

===Wood===
Beech wood is an excellent [[firewood]], easily split and burning for many hours with bright but calm flames. Slats of beech wood are washed in caustic soda to leach out any flavour or aroma characteristics and are spread around the bottom of fermentation tanks for [[Budweiser]] beer. This provides a complex surface on which the yeast can settle, so that it does not pile up, preventing yeast [[autolysis (biology)|autolysis]] which would contribute off-flavours to the beer.{{Citation needed|date= March 2018}} Beech logs are burned to dry the [[malt]] used in German [[smoked beer]]s.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.schlenkerla.de/rauchbier/prozess/prozess.html |title=Der Brauprozeß von Schlenkerla Rauchbier |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2011 |website=Schlenkerla - die historische Rauchbierbrauerei |publisher=Schlenkerla |language=de |access-date=11 December 2020}}</ref> Beech is also used to smoke [[Westphalian ham]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.germanfoods.org/consumer/facts/guidetoham.cfm |title=GermanFoods.org - Guide to German Sausages and German Hams |access-date=2012-05-17 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121123232931/http://www.germanfoods.org/consumer/facts/guidetoham.cfm |archive-date=2012-11-23 }}</ref> traditional [[andouille]] (an offal sausage) from Normandy,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cookthink.com/reference/823/What_is_andouille |title=What is andouille? &#124; Cookthink |access-date=2012-11-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120512015109/http://www.cookthink.com/reference/823/What_is_andouille |archive-date=2012-05-12 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and some cheeses.

Some drums are made from beech, which has a tone between those of [[maple]] and [[birch]], the two most popular drum woods.

The textile [[Modal (textile)|modal]] is a kind of [[rayon]] often made wholly from reconstituted [[cellulose]] of pulped beech wood.<ref>holistic-interior-designs.com, ''[http://www.holistic-interior-designs.com/modal-fabric.html Modal Fabric] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111009010337/http://www.holistic-interior-designs.com/modal-fabric.html |date=2011-10-09 }}'', retrieved 9 October 2011</ref><ref>uniformreuse.co.uk, ''[http://www.uniformreuse.co.uk/fabric_modal.html?KeepThis=true&TB_iframe=true&height=460&width=800 Modal data sheet] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111024015844/http://www.uniformreuse.co.uk/fabric_modal.html?KeepThis=true&TB_iframe=true&height=460&width=800 |date=2011-10-24 }}'', retrieved 9 October 2011</ref><ref>fabricstockexchange.com, ''[http://www.fabricstockexchange.com/blog/resources/fiber-dictionary/ Modal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110925102655/http://fabricstockexchange.com/blog/resources/fiber-dictionary/ |date=2011-09-25 }}'' (dictionary entry), retrieved 9 October 2011</ref>

The European species ''Fagus sylvatica'' yields a tough, utility timber. It weighs about 720&nbsp;kg per cubic metre and is widely used for furniture construction, flooring, and engineering purposes, in plywood and household items, but rarely as a decorative wood. The timber can be used to build chalets, houses, and log cabins.<ref>{{cite journal | last1=Skarvelis | first1=Michalis | last2=Mantanis | first2=George I. | title=Physical and mechanical properties of beech wood harvested in the Greek public forests | journal=Wood Research | publisher=Pulp and Paper Research Institute | volume=58 | issue=1 | date=2012-12-29 | issn=1336-4561 | url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237840835 | access-date=2024-12-24 | pages=123–130}}</ref>

Beech wood is used for the stocks of military rifles when traditionally preferred woods such as [[Juglans#Wood|walnut]] are scarce or unavailable or as a lower-cost alternative.<ref name="Walter-2006">{{cite book |first=J. |last=Walter |title=Rifles of the World |publisher=Krause Publications |edition=3rd |date=2006 |isbn=978-0-89689-241-5 |pages= |url=}}</ref>