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 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.
Which exams you need to pass, how much they cost and which ranks exist to become a BJCP beer judge in 2026.
From ingredient selection to final fermentation, chemistry is essential to understanding how flavors and aromas develop, allowing brewers to adjust the process for specific results.
Beer crème brûlée is a French pastry classic reinvented with Belgian Blonde Ale. A rich custard with a perfectly caramelized sugar crust — ready in under an hour.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fermentation is the heart of the beer brewing process: through it, wort made from malted grains is transformed into alcohol and carbon dioxide by yeast. Beer fermentation is generally divided into three stages: primary fermentation, secondary fermentation, and conditioning.
They are leaders, innovators, and visionaries who have left an indelible mark on the Chilean and Latin American beer industry, influencing not only those who brew it but also how it is perceived and enjoyed worldwide.
Muday is the ancestral Mapuche beer made from cooked wheat, fermented after chewing part of the grain. Traditional recipe, the science behind it and a Mapudungun text.
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.
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.
Parti-gyle brewing can be defined as the process of making two or three different beers from a single mash, obtaining two or three worts of different gravity, which are then boiled separately.
Achieving a high-quality non-alcoholic beer requires a reengineering of non-fermentable carbohydrates to replicate the tactile resistance that alcohol naturally provides in traditional beers.
A blind tasting is one where you don’t know which beer you’re tasting, nor its brand, its price, or its label. It lets you judge what is in the glass, not what you expect to find in it.
Few things delight archaeologists like centuries-old rubbish heaps. Ancient bones and stones from waste piles can tell complex stories.
Fermentation is the heart of the beer brewing process: through it, wort made from malted grains is transformed into alcohol and carbon dioxide by yeast. Beer fermentation is generally divided into three stages: primary fermentation, secondary fermentation, and conditioning.
Naturally carbonated mineral spring waters have been known for millennia, being used even as medicinal agents by the ancient Greeks.
The brewing of the Gose style was established during the 16th century in the then-prosperous mining city of Goslar, in the north-central region of Germany (present-day Lower Saxony), which had built its wealth through silver extraction.
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.
Beer brewing, which has historically used hop flowers to achieve its preservation balance and bitterness, is now undergoing a structural transformation driven by the science of alternative ingredients.
Mouthfeel can be defined as the set of perceptions that do not come directly from taste nor solely from smell but from the physical, thermal, or chemical interaction of the beverage with the mouth, tongue, palate, and throat.
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.
Medieval Europe already mixed beer, butter, eggs and spices, and Harry Potter butterbeer draws on that tradition in modern versions with or without alcohol.
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.
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.
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.
Gulden Draak is a Belgian strong ale-style beer originating from Ertvelde, Belgium, and brewed by Brouwerij Van Steenberge, with 10.5% ABV, 18 IBU, and 255 total calories.
Trabanco Tradicional is the yellow-label natural cider of a Gijón house making cider since 1925, fermented with natural yeasts mostly in chestnut casks.
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.
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.
El Gaitero Clásica is the sparkling cider of the Asturian house founded in 1890 in Villaviciosa, extra semi-dry, 4.1%, with ample bubbles and firm acidity.
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.
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.
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.
Three studies, one with 465 people at a festival, show that drinking beer makes us more attractive to mosquitoes, although it is still unknown why.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It’s undeniable that TikTok is one of the social networks of the moment, developing exponential growth since 2020 until reaching…
Untappd, the most widely used beer check-in and rating app in the world, released version 5.0 on October 15, 2026, and with it adds wine, liquor and spirits to its catalog.
The discovery of a 220-year-old beer bottle recovered from the Sydney Cove, sunk in Australian waters near Tasmania, has inspired the creativity of a team of researchers.
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 history of the beer can, from the 1935 steel can to the cone top, aluminum, the pull tab, the Guinness widget and craft beer.
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.
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).
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.
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.
