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Beer is an alcoholic beverage produced by the brewing and fermentation of starches from cereal grains—most commonly malted barley, although wheat, maize (corn), rice, and oats are also used. The fermentation of the starch sugars in the wort produces ethanol and carbonation in the beer. Beer is one of the oldest alcoholic drinks in the world, the most widely consumed, and the third most popular drink after water and tea. Most modern beer is brewed with hops, which add bitterness and other flavours and act as a natural preservative and stabilising agent. Other flavouring agents, such as gruit, herbs, or fruits, may be included or used instead of hops. In commercial brewing, natural carbonation is often replaced with forced carbonation.
Some of the earliest writings refer to the production and distribution of beer: the Code of Hammurabi included laws regulating it, and "The Hymn to Ninkasi", a prayer to the Mesopotamian goddess of beer, a recipe for it.
Beer is distributed in bottles and cans and is also commonly available on draught, particularly in pubs and bars. The brewing industry is a global business, consisting of several dominant multinational companies and many thousands of smaller producers ranging from brewpubs to regional breweries. The strength of modern beer is usually around 4% to 6% alcohol by volume (ABV).
Beer forms part of the culture of many nations and is associated with social traditions such as beer festivals, as well as activities like pub crawling, pub quizzes, and pub games. (Full article...)
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A pub (short for public house) is a drinking establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises. The term first appeared in the late 17th century, to differentiate private houses from those open to the public as alehouses, taverns and inns. Today, there is no strict definition, but CAMRA states a pub has four characteristics:
- is open to the public without membership or residency
- serves draught beer or cider without requiring food be consumed
- has at least one indoor area not laid out for meals
- allows drinks to be bought at a bar (i.e., not only table service)
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Worthington's White Shield (5.6% ABV) was an India pale ale (IPA) available principally in bottle conditioned form.
White Shield was first brewed by the Worthington Brewery in Burton upon Trent in 1829, primarily for export to the British Empire. Worthington merged with local rival Bass in 1927, which was itself taken over by Coors in 2002. (Full article...)Selected biography - show another
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Dirck Jansz Pesser (c. 1585 - buried September 3, 1651) was a Dutch brewer from Rotterdam, best known today for his portrait by Rembrandt. He was an important member of the Rotterdam Remonstrant community in the early 17th century.
He was the son of the brewer Jan Dammasz Pesser, who had founded the brewery "De Witte Leeuw" (The White Lion) at the end of the 16th century at the Leuvehaven in Rotterdam. On December 18, 1612 Dirck married Haesje Jacobs van Cleyburg. Dirck's older brother Dammas took over his father's brewery, and Dirk himself founded in 1619 the brewery "De Zwarte Leeuw" (The Black Lion, a lion was featured in the Pesser family's coat of arms) in four buildings on the Wijnstraat (Wine Street) near the Wijnhaven (Wine Harbor). (Full article...)Did you know (auto-generated) - load more entries
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- ... that at the 1965 World Pentathlon Championships, Herbert Polzhuber was said to have drunk ten beers and a bottle of cognac before firing his pistol at the ground and passing out?
- ... that the debate in "Game On" invokes the beer question?
- ... that the patu clubs on the New Zealand threepence were compared to bottles of ginger beer?
- ... that Jaega Wise co-hosted the television series Beer Masters alongside musician James Blunt?
- ... that a beer named after the barley variety Golden Promise was not brewed using the variety?
- ... that Pope Pius IX gave the monks of Saint Vincent Archabbey permission to brew Saint Vincent Beer?
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St. James's Gate Brewery is a brewery founded in 1759 in Dublin, Ireland, by Arthur Guinness. The company is now a part of Diageo, a company formed from the merger of Guinness and Grand Metropolitan in 1997. The main product of the brewery is Draught Guinness.
Originally leased in 1759 to Arthur Guinness at £45 per year for 9,000 years, the St. James's Gate area has been the home of Guinness ever since. It became the largest brewery in Ireland in 1838, and the largest in the world by 1886, with an annual output of 1.2 million barrels. Although no longer the largest brewery in the world, it remains as the largest brewer of stout. The company has since bought out the originally leased property, and during the 19th and early 20th centuries, the brewery owned most of the buildings in the surrounding area, including many streets of housing for brewery employees, and offices associated with the brewery. The brewery had its own power plant. (Full article...)Selected image - show another
General images
- Image 1Robohop, a session IPA from Cervisiam in Oslo, Norway (from Craft beer)
- Image 3Modern closed fermentation vessels (from Brewing)
- Image 5Alulu beer receipt recording a purchase of "best" beer from a brewer, c. 2050 BCE, from the Sumerian city of Umma in ancient Iraq. (from History of beer)
- Image 8Yeast ring used by Swedish homebrewers in the 19th century to preserve the yeast between brewing sessions. (from History of beer)
- Image 9A beer sommelier tapping a barrel for a taste at Nebraska Brewing Company (from Craft beer)
- Image 10Bottling beer in a modern facility, 1945, Australia (from History of beer)
- Image 12Microbreweries, regional breweries, and brew pubs per capita (from Craft beer)
- Image 16Spent grain, a brewing by-product (from Brewing)
- Image 18Brew kettles at Brasserie La Choulette in France (from Brewing)
- Image 21Irish Craft Beer Festival, 2015 (from Craft beer)
- Image 24Traditional fermenting building (center) and modern fermenting building (left) in Pilsner Urquell Brewery (Czech Republic) (from History of beer)
- Image 26The Alulu beer receipt records a purchase of "best" beer from a brewer, c. 2050 BC from the Sumerian city of Umma in Mesopotamia (ancient Iraq). (from Brewing)
- Image 27Lauter tun (from Brewing)
- Image 28Rock mortars in Raqefet Cave, used to make beer during the Stone Age. (from History of beer)
- Image 29A 16th-century brewery (from Brewing)
- Image 30Diatomaceous earth, used to create a filtration bed (from Brewing)
- Image 33A funerary model of a bakery and brewery, from the Eleventh dynasty of Egypt, c. 2009–1998 BCE (from History of beer)
- Image 36A selection of French craft beers (from Craft beer)
- Image 37A 16th-century brewery (from History of beer)
- Image 40A replica of ancient Egyptian beer, brewed from emmer wheat by the Courage brewery in 1996 (from History of beer)
- Image 41A can of Juicy Ass IPA from Flying Monkeys Craft Brewery in Barrie, Ontario, Canada (from Craft beer)
- Image 42Bill Urquhart at Litchborough Brewery (from Craft beer)
- Image 44D. G. Yuengling & Son is the oldest operating brewing company in the US, established in 1829. It is also the largest craft brewer, and the 6th largest brewing company overall. (from Craft beer)
- Image 45World beer consumption per capita (from History of beer)
- Image 46Philistine pottery beer jug (from History of beer)
- Image 48Open vessels showing fermentation taking place (from Brewing)
- Image 49Cask ales with gravity dispense at a beer festival (from Brewing)
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