A draft beer in summer feels like relief. But the body keeps count in a different way. Beer activates a precise physiological mechanism that makes you lose more water than you consume. It’s not a myth, it’s hormones. The culprit…
From sacramental wine regulations to Vatican duty-free shops and Trappist monasteries, the Catholic Church has shaped the alcohol industry in ways most drinkers never consider. The story spans canon law, papal certification of wine producers, and brands that wear the monastic habit without living it.
SABECO has over 150 years of history in Vietnam’s brewing industry. It is one of the sector’s leading companies in the country and the parent company of brands such as Saigon Beer and Saigon Special.
Traditional SEO is shifting ground. It’s no longer enough to optimize to appear on Google’s first page; the battle is now fought in the responses of large language models (LLMs).
In 2025, French people consumed 22.1 million hectoliters of beer versus 22 million of wine, according to the OIV. It is the first time on record that beer has overtaken wine in France.
A June 2026 study detects immunoreactive barley peptides in gluten-free labeled beers that pass the 20 ppm threshold but can activate celiac disease, questioning the adequacy of current testing methods.
Corn was being fermented in America thousands of years before European barley arrived; later condemned by the American craft movement under an imported purity dogma, today it reclaims its place as a terroir ingredient.
Corn was fermenting across the Americas millennia before the first European barley arrived. It was adopted by industry, condemned by craft brewers, and is now reclaimed as a terroir ingredient.
A team at Chalmers University of Technology has developed a biodegradable construction material made from baker’s yeast, algae alginate, wood cellulose, and vegetable glycerol—3D printable at room temperature with no heating, no support structures, and no waste.
In 1976, La Zaragozana launched Ambar SIN, Spain’s first non-alcoholic beer. Fifty years later, the country leads European consumption at 14% of the market. The story of the inventor, the blue label, and the journey from 4,000 small bottles to global stardom.
In 2013, a 61-year-old man arrived at the emergency room of a Texas hospital with a blood alcohol level of 0.37 g/dL. He claimed he had not been drinking. The medical staff did not believe him, since 0.37 g/dL is equivalent to consuming, in one go, nearly ten standard pints.
Its designations of origin, the richness of its cured and smoked products, as well as its regional variety—from Atlantic Galician cuisine to Levantine pastry—offer a vast territory to explore the principles of beer pairing.
