Brewing beer with less than 0.5% alcohol involves stopping fermentation early or removing ethanol afterward, and in both cases more residual fermentable sugar remains in the liquid than in a conventional beer.
Duchesse de Bourgogne spends years maturing in oak barrels before reaching the glass—a process that has made it one of the most recognized Flanders Red Ales in Belgium.
To celebrate the centenary, the brewery launched a 33-cl bottle with a commemorative label and a matching crown cap. It also presented a special edition of glasses with an anniversary design and a delicate silver rim.
The choice honors Hildegard of Bingen, who documented the properties of hops in the Middle Ages, and María Fernández Preisegger “La Galle,” a pioneer of inclusive gluten-free craft beer in Argentina.
From regulatory, technical elaboration, chemical composition, or organoleptic profile, understanding this distinction is fundamental to properly valuing this beverage that has gained relevance in recent years.
The Chilean brewery Caurhop launched Chañarcillo Bass Porter, a recreation of the beer consumed by workers at the legendary Chañarcillo mine during the peak of Atacama mining in the 19th century.
Études sur la Bière marked the point of no return; beer ceased to be a product of seasonality and luck to become one of the first great victories of biotechnology.
While the origins of kombucha are still unknown, the consensus indicates that it would have originated in Manchuria, China, where writings have been found mentioning the tea mushroom during the Tsin dynasty, around 206 BC.
For millennia, human saliva was the most effective enzyme for creating fermentable sugars as an intimate biochemical reaction that defined the history of fermentation long before agriculture.
Beer is a perfect example of what in anthropology is known as cultural convergence, a phenomenon in which civilizations separated by oceans and millennia arrived at the same technological solution without having influenced each other.
Tesgüino is a corn beer produced by the Rarámuri in the Sierra Tarahumara, Chihuahua, which still remains integrated into their labor exchange systems, ritual organization, and identity reproduction.
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