International Stout Day is celebrated on the first Thursday of November. Who created it, the real history of Stout and how to join in with #StoutDay.
Cheese fondue is one of the emblematic dishes of Swiss cuisine, originating in Romandy, also known as French-speaking Switzerland. Here it is made with stout.
The tulip glass is very similar to the snifter, but larger, with a longer stem and a curve that flares at the top, ideal for full-bodied, aromatic and complex beers.
Beer waffles recipe with ingredients, step-by-step instructions and tips for making them airy inside and crispy outside.
The combination of dark beer, in this case a Porter, with spices, sugar and agar-agar makes this jam ideal for spreading on bread and serving with cheese and meat.
Spent grain bread is a delicious, sustainable and nutritious option made from a byproduct of the brewing process, the mashed malt grains.
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The balance ratio, or BU:GU ratio (Bitterness Unit:Gravity Unit), is an original idea from brewing math first presented by beer writer Ray Daniels in his book “Designing Great Beers”.
Kettle souring has revolutionized sour beer production as a modern, controlled technique that delivers a pronounced acidic profile in far less time than traditional fermentation methods.
Hoegaarden Grand Cru is a Belgian Strong Ale brewed by Hoegaarden in Belgium, with 8.5% ABV, 29 IBU and 255 calories, best served in a Tulip or Snifter glass.
The history of the jigger constitutes the fundamental axis upon which the professionalization of modern mixology was built, transforming a craft based on empirical intuition into an exact technical discipline.
Hop production in Brazil is reaching a turning point thanks to the advancement of clean technologies applied to its processing.
In just a few moments, a tsunami of thousands of liters of beer devastated the Saint Giles neighborhood in London, causing a genuine tragedy: what history remembers as the London Beer Flood of 1814.
If you don’t know Lars Marius Garshol but have heard of kveik yeast, he is the man who made it known worldwide, as he tells in Historical Brewing Techniques.
Beer rarely expires the same way perishable food does. A guide to understanding best before dates, proper storage, and the signs that tell you a beer has passed its prime.
Saison Dupont is a Belgian top-fermented beer, bottle-conditioned, brewed since 1844 during the winter to quench the thirst of the “saisoniers” who would work in the fields during the summer.
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.
Royal Leerdam’s AnDer glass was launched in 2015 for beer tasting. Who designed it, what its capacity is and how much is poured at a tasting.
Eichbaum, founded in 1679 in Mannheim, closes in 2026 after failing to find an investor. The rescue failed and around 270 employees lose their jobs at the city’s oldest brewery.
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.
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.
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.
Not many people—not even the most seasoned and passionate cannabis enthusiasts—know how or why the number 420 became linked to marijuana culture. Here’s the real story.
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?
Beer runs deep in German culture, and this April 23 most of the country celebrates Beer Day, a year after the purity law turned 500.
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.
What determines our preferences for certain types of beer? Why do some people enjoy bitter beers like IPAs, while others prefer sweeter or even sour beers?
First Wort Hopping (FWH) means adding a large volume of late-addition hops to the kettle as the wort is transferred from the mash tun.
Excerpt: Beer tasting is not strictly a professional exercise or reserved only for competitions, but an activity that can be everyday, and with study, training, and practice, anyone can perfect it.
Science had just emerged as a profession, yet it was a self-taught textile merchant who became one of the greatest scientific celebrities in all of Europe.
Beer foam (collar or head) is one of those things that has a specific name that most people are unaware of: ‘Giste’, a word that comes from the German ‘Gischt’, which precisely means foam.
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.
Cheese fondue is one of the emblematic dishes of Swiss cuisine, originating in Romandy, also known as French-speaking Switzerland. Here it is made with stout.
Sidra Real Etiqueta Blanca is the everyday cider of CCU Argentina’s longest-running brand, made in the Alto Valle de Río Negro from red and green apples.
Köstritzer Schwarzbier is a bottom-fermented black lager. It has been produced since 1543 by the Köstritzer Schwarzbierbrauerei brewery, in the German state of Thuringia.
Pilsner Urquell is the first beer of its kind in history and the one from which, for better or worse, all others in its style were developed. Its quality is guaranteed by the use of the original recipe.
Westmalle Tripel is a Belgian Trappist beer brewed by Brouwerij der Trappisten van Westmalle and first introduced to the market in 1934, being a pioneer of its style and marking a milestone in the country’s brewing tradition.
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.
Delirium Tremens is a Golden Belgian Strong Ale style beer originating from Melle, Belgium, brewed by Brouwerij Huyghe, with 8.5% ABV, 200 calories, and 26 IBU.
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.
Unlike all other Trappist breweries, Orval produces only one variety of beer for the general public, with just 15% of its total production available for export.
Angry Orchard went national in the US in 2012 with Crisp Apple among its three core ciders, and now runs a cidery on a 24-hectare orchard in New York.
Paulaner Hefe-Weissbier, a German wheat beer with notes of banana, clove, and citrus, is perfect for pairing with Bavarian dishes, fresh cheeses, roasted vegetables, and citrus desserts. Its unique flavor and versatility make it ideal for any occasion.
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.
Trabanco Tradicional is the yellow-label natural cider of a Gijón house making cider since 1925, fermented with natural yeasts mostly in chestnut casks.
No amount of alcohol is known to be safe in pregnancy, whether wine or beer. What to do if you drank before knowing, and what a 0.0 beer really contains.
Cristal and Pilsen Callao, from Backus, are Peru’s best-selling beers. Learn their history and other brands such as Cusqueña, San Juan, Tres Cruces and Barbarian.
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.
Of the 10 most expensive beers in the world, some hit astronomical prices on release, while others are still brewed in exclusive batches.
Corona Extra is the world’s most valuable beer brand in 2026, worth $13.9 billion. Brand Finance ranking plus the historic 2018 list.
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.
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.
We invited Rob Tod, founder of Allagash Brewing Co., to share 20 practical lessons for brewery success learned over 25 years of activity. This was his response.
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 craft beer boom has revived Guadalajara’s love for malt and hops, and the city has no shortage of places to sit down and enjoy a good beer.
A refractometer is an optical instrument that measures the sucrose concentration of a solution based on the refractive index produced by light in that solution.
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.
The cold chain essentially means that the product being distributed is kept refrigerated at a constant temperature at all times, including during transportation.
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.
On January 24, 1935, the first canned beer went on sale after decades of experiments and more than ten years of Prohibition, thanks to the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company in Richmond, Virginia.
E-E-A-T — Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness — is one of the core frameworks Google uses to assess content quality. Learn what it means for SEO and how craft beer sites can build it.
A Saison and a Sweet Stout start from similar original gravities but end up at opposite extremes, one very dry and the other sweet. The difference lies in how much work the yeast did and in what it left unfermented.
The beverage, named “Ocho punto ocho” (8.8), combines the characteristic flavor of the terremoto with a different nutritional profile, standing out for its lower sugar content and half the calories compared to the homemade version.
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.
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.
Plastic packaging has changed the way we live. It is cheap, can be molded into almost any shape and is generally easy to recycle.
In the beer world, every so often a discussion tends to arise about whether using extracts or essences betrays the craft spirit. The question seems simple, but the answer has quite a few nuances worth analyzing.
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.
