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 legend about the origin of IPAs says that British brewers were looking to develop a recipe that could be exported to India, a very difficult journey where it was exposed to dramatically extreme temperatures.
Whether you’re a beginner homebrewer or an experienced one with years of practice and hundreds of batches under your belt, the fundamentals always remain the same.
This year’s new feature is a new category, Women Collective of the Year, sponsored by CAMRA. The deadline for submissions closes on August 30.
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.
An essential part of the Eleusinian rites was the consumption of a beverage called ‘Kykeon,’ an infusion made from sacramental water, barley, and mint, which is also believed to have contained ergot fungus, a precursor to LSD.
When religion permeated everything, major transformations appeared even in the most mundane matters. When the Protestant Revolution reduced the Catholic Church’s power, beer was much more than a pleasure drink.
Pierre Celis was the man who put the small Belgian village of Hoegaarden on the world beer map when in the 1960s he revived a beer style made with wheat, spices, and fruit known as Witbier (white beer).
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.
Sierra Nevada launched this Pale Ale in 1980 and brought Cascade hops to the center of the recipe, marking the starting point of the citrus profile that would later define hundreds of American IPAs.
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.
Stout is a beer style with almost 300 years of history, a direct descendant of Porter, from which it evolved into a style of its own with many variations.
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.
Chill haze is a widely studied phenomenon in brewing science and presents itself as one of the main challenges in the production of clear beers.
Unlike other Trappist abbeys located in Belgium, the Abbey of Saint Sixtus of Westvleteren (Sint-Sixtusabdij van Westvleteren in Dutch) does not date back to the times of the first congregations of the Cistercian Order.
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.
Naturally carbonated mineral spring waters have been known for millennia, being used even as medicinal agents by the ancient Greeks.
Among the list of Mexican spirits that have become fashionable, there is one that experts consider the forgotten beverage: pulque, traditional among the ancient Mexicans.
Belgian Saisons are historically beers rooted in farm life, whereas Belgian Grisettes are beers intrinsically rooted in mining and the Industrial Revolution.
The history of the St. Bernardus Brewery is strongly linked to two Trappist abbeys since the monks of Catsberg Abbey (Mont des Cats) decided to move to Belgium and settle in the small town of Watou.
This holiday, which began as a religious celebration, has evolved into a global event honoring Irish culture with parades, music, food, and of course, beer.
Lambic, Gueuze, and their various variants are a living relic of a time when all beer was fermented at the mercy of nature.
BrewMeister’s Snake Venom has 67.5% alcohol and was once the strongest beer in the world. Here is how it is made and which beer beats it today.
Today it is very common to wonder what the real difference is between beer types and beer styles, whether industrial or craft, because while the original idea is shared, it is the latter that has clearly begun to impose itself in recent decades among brewers and the market in general.
Chile has one of the finest terroirs in the world, thanks to its long territory, which has allowed it to develop a strong diversification of grape varieties and, therefore, a powerful wine presence at a global level.
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.
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.
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.
Sidra 1888 is the 5% cider Sáenz Briones makes from red apples in Argentina’s Alto Valle de Río Negro, at a company owned by CCU since 2010.
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 Clonmel since 1935 with 17 apple varieties, Magners Original is the 4.5% semi-sweet Irish cider the brand suggests serving in a pint over ice.
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 Original Dry is the 5.3% version the brand bills as export strength for the US and Canada, and it is also sold in the UK in cans and bottles.
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.
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.
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.
Indio is one of Mexico’s most iconic beers, with a rich history dating back to 1893. It emphasizes the use of local ingredients and traditional brewing techniques.
The interaction between alcohol and dopamine is a neurological phenomenon that explains the immediate effects of alcohol consumption, as well as the underlying mechanisms of addiction and mood disorders.
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 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.
Of the 10 most expensive beers in the world, some hit astronomical prices on release, while others are still brewed in exclusive batches.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When beer is introduced into a rotor spinning at high revolutions, a centrifugal force is generated that can reach between 5,000 and 10,000 times the Earth’s gravity. This acceleration reduces sedimentation time to fractions of a second.
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 relationship between the chemical composition of a beer and its consumer appreciation has been an elusive field for food science, due to the non-linear nature of perception and its complex interactions.
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.
To identify S. chiloensis as a new species, scientists used an integrative taxonomy approach, combining analysis of genomic sequences, reproductive isolation studies, and phenotypic analyses.
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.
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.
The first thing to understand is that IBU, from a chemical perspective, does not refer to the perceived flavor in beer, but rather to the levels of certain bitter compounds dissolved in the liquid.
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.
The cold chain essentially means that the product being distributed is kept refrigerated at a constant temperature at all times, including during transportation.
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.
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.
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 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.
