Pliny the Elder was created in 2000 as a special brew for the beer festival organized by Vic Kralj, owner of the Bistro in Hayward, California, in which only 10 breweries took part.
In the late 19th century, Anchor Brewing Company began brewing its famous Steam Beer, using local ingredients and giving up the lager brewing techniques popular at the time.
This version, especially the one produced in the 1970s–1990s, became the last direct commercial survivor of the original lineage of 18th-century London Imperial Stouts.
Neither Ozempic nor Mounjaro mentions alcohol in its product information, but Heineken has just warned British pubs and bars that these drugs reduce the desire to drink and that users spend 14% less on beer.
The history of the beer can, from the 1935 steel can to the cone top, aluminum, the pull tab, the Guinness widget and craft beer.
Bottle openers are part of our personal toolkit, on the key chain, in the backpack or packed as a basic utensil when we go camping.
Yeasts are more diverse than we think; there are thousands of species and they inhabit almost all natural environments on the planet, being used in food production and/or to produce antioxidant compounds and sunscreens.
In beer tasting, crisp has nothing to do with crunch. It describes a dry, clean, fresh finish, and the BJCP defines it as an abrupt turn to sharpness.
Hops are vital to the brewing industry due to their diverse organoleptic personalities: German noble hops, woody British strains, spiced American varieties, and hybrids with tropical fruit profiles.
You do not simply request an “IPA recipe”; instead, you instruct Claude Code to first analyze the ingredient inventory, evaluate the cooling capacity of the equipment, and propose a mashing process that favors the desired final body.
The history of the Munich Oktoberfest dates back to October 12, 1810, when Prince Ludwig of Bavaria, son of King Maximilian I, married Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
Cantillon ferments this beer spontaneously with wild yeasts from the Senne valley and adds fresh raspberries, giving rise to one of the most renowned fruit lambics in Brussels.
Beer was considered a medicine in the old European tradition. In the Middle Ages, monks fortified themselves with “barley juice” and drank between three and five “measures” of beer a day.
Non-conventional yeasts that inhabit fruit skins, wooden barrels, and the air of cellars are ceasing to be a curiosity to become the most powerful tool for beer innovation in the 21st century.
On December 11, 2014, the liso was officially declared Intangible Cultural Heritage of the city of Santa Fe by the Honorable Municipal Council of this emblematic Argentine city.
It is not simply that alcohol lowers testosterone. The effect depends on the dose and involves the endocrine system, liver metabolism and even the gut microbiota.
The ADA allows people with diabetes one beer a day for women and two for men. How beer affects blood glucose and the risk of delayed hypoglycemia.
The beer Pliny the Elder takes its name in honor of the Roman traveler, naturalist, historian, and writer Gaius Minor Plinius Caecilius Secundus, who is credited with having given the first botanical name for hops.
The Belgians point to fishermen from the Meuse River, who fried potato strips when the waters froze in the 17th century. The French point to street vendors at Paris’s Pont Neuf, who popularized them in the late 18th century.
Cantillon Rosé de Gambrinus is a traditional raspberry lambic (framboise) brewed annually in Brussels since 1909, although the current name was only first used in 1986.
Its composition was subject to local variations and in many cases a jealously guarded secret, but the general consensus reveals that the gruit blend is historically linked to 3 herbs.
Pilsner Urquell ensures that wherever their beer is available on draft, a certified tapster is trained to serve it correctly. Discover the three traditional Czech service styles: Hladinka, Šnyt, and Mlíko.
Historically, brewers around the world have used locally available water to brew their beer, leading to the development of beer styles associated with specific mineral water profiles found in those places.
Irish moss, or carrageenan, is a red seaweed used to clarify and stabilize beer during the boil. Learn how it works, how to use it, and how it compares to other fining agents.
Naturally carbonated mineral spring waters have been known for millennia, being used even as medicinal agents by the ancient Greeks.
For the average beer consumer, the difference between Ale and Lager usually comes down to appearance, aromas and flavors, where the former tend to be darker and fruitier, while the latter are usually clearer and have cleaner flavors.
Traditional Japanese green tea known as matcha is no longer just a trend in specialty cafés, tea rooms, and restaurants. What happens when you mix it with beer?
For early humanity, beer was perhaps the most important staple in their diet—a valuable source of protein and vitamins, and a crucial milestone in ensuring our survival as a species.
In simple words, beer is an alcoholic beverage made from starches obtained from cereals and other grains, flavored and aromatized with hops, which are then fermented in water with yeasts of the genus Saccharomyces.
This story takes us to the great Pacific Northwest, home of vast barley fields and the two largest hop-producing regions in North America, the Yakima Valley and the Willamette Valley.
From the first fermentations in Mesopotamia to the craft beer revolution in the United States, beer has evolved and diversified into a variety of styles and traditions that vary enormously from one region to another.
Chicha de jora is the germinated corn beer of the Andes. Its pre-Hispanic history, the science of its fermentation and the traditional recipe step by step.
Cuello Negro Stout is a craft beer made with pure water from the Valdivian rainforest in southern Chile, whose flavor comes from a careful brewing process that gives it an unmistakable distinctive character.
Pliny the Elder is not just a beer; it is a living legend of the American craft beer movement and an absolute benchmark for the Double IPA style, coveted and studied by brewers and enthusiasts worldwide.
Petrus Aged Red is brewed from a Double Brown Ale base blended with 15% Petrus Aged Pale, which gives the beer a dry character and a light bitter edge.
3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze is a blend of one, two and three year old spontaneously fermented lambics, barrel-aged and bottle-refermented, with lively acidity and an earthy profile typical of the style.
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.
Houblon Chouffe Bière Tripel IPA represents a unique fusion of the English IPA tradition, the American Double IPA revolution, and the Belgian Tripel heritage.
Cantillon ferments this beer spontaneously with wild yeasts from the Senne valley and adds fresh raspberries, giving rise to one of the most renowned fruit lambics in Brussels.
Fuller’s London Pride is one of England’s most iconic beers and a true emblem of the Best Bitter style, appreciated by generations of beer lovers around the world.
Chimay Bleue is an iconic beer from the Belgian abbey of the same name that, with its wealth of flavors and complexity, has earned a special place in the hearts of beer lovers around the world.
Made in Kopparberg, Sweden, by a brewery founded in 1882, Kopparberg Pear is the 4.5% sweet perry the brand suggests serving over plenty of ice.
Hoegaarden Wit is one of the world’s most iconic beers, a Belgian wheat beer whose pale yellow color and natural haze win you over at first sight.
Duvel is an emblematic Belgian beer that, since its creation in the 1920s, has achieved iconic status in the beer world for its complexity and balance.
Did you know that beer can affect your good and bad cholesterol levels? Discover its impact on your cardiovascular health and what science says about it.
To start this top 10 of the best-selling beers in the world, we can comment that for 2020, most of them are on the way to generating an impressive sum of 688.4 billion dollars in sales.
The Brews to Barns Act would give small US breweries 8 cents per pound of spent grain donated to farms, capped at $35,000 a year.
The best-selling beer in each Latin American country with 2024 to 2026 data, from Brazil and Mexico to Costa Rica, and the brewing groups that control the market.
The decline is especially marked among young people aged 15 to 24, who have reduced their usual consumption by around 60% over the last two decades. Spain is the fifth country in the European Union with the most abstainers.
Mahou San Miguel has announced the acquisition of 100% of Founders Brewing, one of the most prestigious craft breweries in the United States, based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Of the 10 most expensive beers in the world, some hit astronomical prices on release, while others are still brewed in exclusive batches.
Over 500,000 people of Palestinian descent live in Chile today, where second, third, and fourth-generation families keep alive the language, traditions, and memory of a territory many have never been able to return to.
Next Glass acquired BeerAdvocate in February 2020 in a deal that brought under one roof the oldest beer review community on the internet and the world’s most popular consumption tracking app.
Cerveceros de España has officially coined the term zitoturismo to bring together the guided tastings, brewery visits and walks through barley and hop fields that millions of people already enjoy in Spain.
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.
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).
Craft and independent brewers dedicate a great deal of time, effort, and resources to making the best beer possible, but all of this hard work can be ruined in the time it takes the beer to travel from the keg to the pint.
Planning a big party, a barbecue or a day at the pool with friends or family? One key to success is having plenty of fresh, cold beer on hand.
Nitro beer has been dismissed as a passing trend more than once — yet it keeps finding new fans and new formats. From the Guinness widget to nitro Cream Ales and Lagers, here is the science and history behind the nitrogen revolution in beer.
In answers from AI search assistants (LLMs), the algorithm does more than rank pages. It can break content into fragments, pull relevant ideas from different sites and combine them into a single unified answer for the user.
If you have ever visited Ireland, you have surely tasted a Kilkenny, Murphy’s or Guinness beer in one of its many pubs with a spirit that exudes authenticity from every corner.
Our phone is the first thing we check in the morning and the last thing we see before going to sleep. It’s your biggest opportunity to communicate with your customers and make an impression.
The history of the beer can, from the 1935 steel can to the cone top, aluminum, the pull tab, the Guinness widget and craft beer.
Plastic packaging has changed the way we live. It is cheap, can be molded into almost any shape and is generally easy to recycle.
Why is a slice of lemon placed on the neck of clear glass beer bottles and not on others? It is a mystery that has never really been clear until now.
Every consumer already has their preferences: some reject cans while others love the creative designs they can carry. This article cuts through the aesthetics to lay out the objective facts on which format is better depending on the conditions.
An uncomfortable reality in the mass certification circuit is that many judges have never brewed professionally, leaving them without the tools to diagnose processes they claim to correct from score sheets.
The Brews to Barns Act would give small US breweries 8 cents per pound of spent grain donated to farms, capped at $35,000 a year.
Grupo Modelo hands over the store ready to operate and pays the rent, and the operator puts up an initial investment that starts at 60,000 pesos, according to the company itself, and that goes entirely toward inventory.
The decline is especially marked among young people aged 15 to 24, who have reduced their usual consumption by around 60% over the last two decades. Spain is the fifth country in the European Union with the most abstainers.
Next Glass acquired BeerAdvocate in February 2020 in a deal that brought under one roof the oldest beer review community on the internet and the world’s most popular consumption tracking app.
Over 500,000 people of Palestinian descent live in Chile today, where second, third, and fourth-generation families keep alive the language, traditions, and memory of a territory many have never been able to return to.
The big brewers trade on the NYSE, Euronext and the Tokyo Stock Exchange. A guide to investing in AB InBev, Heineken, Carlsberg, Constellation Brands and Molson Coors from Latin America and Spain.
That relationship was described by the English chemist William Henry, and today it rules everything from the bottle cap to the regulator on a keg. That is why a British ale, a weissbier and a Czech pilsner can feel so different in the glass.
Several mistaken ideas about beer tears are going around, and they come from the world of wine and whisky. That they reveal quality, that glycerol produces them or that they form because alcohol concentrates at the top of the glass.
PFAS, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are a large family of synthetic compounds built on carbon-fluorine bonds, among the most stable in chemistry.
The figures vary widely between countries, from 4 particles per liter in the United States to more than 90 in Spain. Much of that difference lies in how they are measured and understanding that matters as much as the number.
Hops bring their own enzymes that break down dextrins and reactivate the yeast after dry hopping. What hop creep is, how much alcohol and CO₂ it adds and how to stop it.
