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.
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.
The history of science is filled with characters who worked in the shadows, far from the academic spotlight, but whose contributions ended up transforming entire disciplines. William Sealy Gosset is one such case.
At the beginning of the 18th century, London was not the refined capital that Victorian literature would later suggest; it was a crowded, hungry, growing metropolis, the setting for what historians call the ‘gin craze’.
A comprehensive new resource for beer enthusiasts, The Beer Tasting Practical Guide: How to Truly Appreciate Any Beer in the World, is now available for readers and listeners worldwide.
At a 1,700-year-old site, a team of archaeologists unearthed an ancient funerary site revealing a previously unknown and deeply symbolic practice of pouring alcoholic beverages such as wine and beer over the dead.
The legend of the Russian Imperial Stout style tells that the future Tsar of Russia, Peter the Great, was captivated by Porter-style beers during a visit to England in the late 17th century.
Although the origin of these names cannot be stated with absolute certainty, one of the most common explanations relates to how alcoholic beverages were historically identified.
The Brewer’s Star, also known as Bierstern or Brauerstern, is an iconic symbol that has accompanied humanity for over 500 years, representing the art, tradition, and passion behind beer brewing.
Discover how Mathilde Schneider defied the laws of her time and, influenced by European feminism, decided to lead a brewery and create the iconic Aventinus, a beer that revolutionized the industry at the beginning of the 20th century.
Duvel Moortgat is a family brewery founded in 1871 by Jan-Leonard Moortgat in the town of Breendonk, being one of the more than 3,000 breweries operating in Belgium at that time.
With over 25 years of history, Kunstmann Torobayo wasn’t just the first Craft beer produced domestically – it became a milestone in Chile’s brewing industry.
