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Beer is an alcoholic beverage produced by the brewing and fermentation of starches from cereal grain—most commonly malted barley, although wheat, maize (corn), rice, and oats are also used. The grain is mashed to convert starch in the grain to sugars, which dissolve in water to form wort. Fermentation of the wort by yeast produces ethanol and carbonation in the beer. Beer is one of the oldest and most widely consumed alcoholic drinks in the world, and one of the most popular of all drinks. Most modern beer is brewed with hops, which add bitterness and other flavours and act as a natural preservative and stabilising agent. Other flavouring agents, such as gruit, herbs, or fruits, may be included or used instead of hops. In commercial brewing, natural carbonation is often replaced with forced carbonation.

Beer is distributed in bottles and cans, and is commonly available on draught in pubs and bars. The brewing industry is a global business, consisting of several dominant multinational companies and many thousands of smaller producers ranging from brewpubs to regional breweries. The strength of modern beer is usually around 4% to 6% alcohol by volume (ABV).

Some of the earliest writings mention the production and distribution of beer: the Code of Hammurabi (1750 BC) included laws regulating it, while "The Hymn to Ninkasi", a prayer to the Mesopotamian goddess of beer, contains a recipe for it. Beer forms part of the culture of many nations and is associated with social traditions such as beer festivals, as well as activities like pub games. (Full article...)

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Kvass is a fermented, cereal-based, low-alcoholic beverage of cloudy appearance and sweet-sour taste.

Kvass originates from northeastern Europe, where grain production was considered insufficient for beer to become a daily drink. The first written mention of kvass is found in Primary Chronicle, describing the celebration of Vladimir the Great's baptism in 988. (Full article...)

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Coors Light is a 4.2% ABV light American lager beer sold by Coors (currently Molson Coors) of Chicago, Illinois. It was first produced in 1978 by the Coors Brewing Company. They had briefly produced a different low-alcohol beer by the same name in 1941.

It is brewed in Golden, Colorado; Albany, Georgia; Elkton, Virginia; Fort Worth, Texas; Irwindale, California; and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, among other locations in the USA. The Canadian version of Coors Light is 4.0% ABV and brewed by Molson Coors Canada Inc. in Moncton, New Brunswick; St.John's, Newfoundland; Longueuil, Quebec; Toronto, Ontario and Chilliwack, British Columbia. In Australia, the United Kingdom and Ireland, Coors Light is labeled as "Coors". (Full article...)

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Søren Anton van der Aa Kühle (27 October 1849 - 12 April 1906) was a Danish brewer and chief business executive. He was chief operational officer of Gamle Carlsberg from 1881 and succeeded J.C. Jacobsen as managing director of the brewery in 1887. (Full article...)

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Webster's Brewery (Samuel Webster & Sons Ltd) was a brewery founded in 1838 by Samuel Webster which operated at the Fountain Head Brewery in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. Webster's Green Label, a light mild, and Yorkshire Bitter gained national distribution after the company was taken over by Watney Mann in 1972. Throughout the 1970s it was known for the advertising slogan: "Drives out the northern thirst".

The brewery was closed with the loss of 400 jobs in 1996. Following its acquisition by Courage Brewery in 1990, Courage moved operations to Berkshire brewery as they bought the brewery to obtain the Budweiser and Holsten pils packaging contracts. After the brewery's closure, Webster's beers were initially brewed at the John Smith's Brewery in Tadcaster before moving to the Thomas Hardy Brewery at Burtonwood in 2004. Silvan Brands have owned the company since 2003 when they acquired it from Scottish & Newcastle. (Full article...)

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Image 1Bergenhus microbrewery, Bergen, Norway (from Craft beer)
Image 2Malted barley before kilning or roasting (from Brewing)
Image 3Castaña, a smoked beer with chestnuts from Cerex in Extremadura, Spain (from Craft beer)
Image 4A beer sommelier tapping a barrel for a taste at Nebraska Brewing Company (from Craft beer)
Image 5A yard of ale at Jolly Brewery, Taiwan (from Craft beer)
Image 6Lauter tun (from Brewing)
Image 7Rock mortars in Raqefet Cave, used to make beer during the Stone Age. (from History of beer)
Image 8Craft brewing at Allagash in Portland, Maine (from Craft beer)
Image 9Great Leap Brewing operates a chain of brewpubs in China (from Craft beer)
Image 10Hop cone grown in a hop field, Hallertau, Germany (from Brewing)
Image 11A funerary model of a bakery and brewery, from the Eleventh dynasty of Egypt, c. 2009–1998 BCE (from History of beer)
Image 12Cask ales with gravity dispense at a beer festival (from Brewing)
Image 13A mash tun at the Bass Museum in Burton-upon-Trent (from Brewing)
Image 14World beer consumption per capita (from History of beer)
Image 15A can of Juicy Ass IPA from Flying Monkeys Craft Brewery in Barrie, Ontario, Canada (from Craft beer)
Image 16A 16th-century brewery (from History of beer)
Image 17Bill Urquhart at Litchborough Brewery (from Craft beer)
Image 18Philistine pottery beer jug (from History of beer)
Image 19Dogo Beer from Minakuchi-shuzō microbrewery in Matsuyama, Japan (from Craft beer)
Image 20Casks of real ale from British microbreweries at a beer festival (from Craft beer)
Image 21Gambrinus – king of beer (from History of beer)
Image 22Modern closed fermentation vessels (from Brewing)
Image 23Zoigl beers from the communal brewhouses of Oberpfalz in Germany (from Craft beer)
Image 24A hydrometer measures beer's specific gravity (from History of beer)
Image 25Brew kettles at Brasserie La Choulette in France (from Brewing)
Image 26Smoked beer from the Schlenkerla brewpub in Bamberg, Germany (from Craft beer)
Image 27D. G. Yuengling & Son is the oldest operating brewing company in the US, established in 1829. It is also the largest craft brewer and the 6th largest brewing company. (from Craft beer)
Image 28Spontaneous fermentation at Timmermans in Belgium (from Brewing)
Image 29The Alulu beer receipt records a purchase of "best" beer from a brewer, c. 2050 BC, from the Sumerian city of Umma in Mesopotamia (ancient Iraq). (from Brewing)
Image 30A selection of French craft beers (from Craft beer)
Image 31Diatomaceous earth, used to create a filtration bed (from Brewing)
Image 32The Caledonian Brewery, founded in 1869, Edinburgh, Scotland (from History of beer)
Image 33Põhjala Brewery, Estonia (from Craft beer)
Image 34A 16th-century brewery (from Brewing)
Image 35Conditioning tanks at Anchor Brewing Company (from Brewing)
Image 36Bottling beer in a modern facility, 1945, Australia (from History of beer)
Image 37Robohop, a session IPA from Cervisiam in Oslo, Norway (from Craft beer)
Image 38Open vessels showing fermentation taking place (from Brewing)
Image 39Steamworks Brewing, Vancouver (from Craft beer)
Image 40Traditional fermenting building (center) and modern fermenting building (left) in Pilsner Urquell Brewery (Czech Republic) (from History of beer)
Image 41Spent grain, a brewing by-product (from Brewing)
Image 42Alulu beer receipt recording a purchase of "best" beer from a brewer, c. 2050 BCE, from the Sumerian city of Umma in ancient Iraq. (from History of beer)
Image 43A growler of beer from Flounder Brewing, a nanobrewery in New Jersey, US (from Craft beer)
Image 44Pasteur Street Brewing, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (from Craft beer)
Image 45Yeast ring used by Swedish homebrewers in the 19th century to preserve the yeast between brewing sessions. (from History of beer)
Image 46A replica of ancient Egyptian beer, brewed from emmer wheat by the Courage brewery in 1996 (from History of beer)
Image 47Irish Craft Beer Festival, 2015 (from Craft beer)
Image 48Mexican craft beer from Tequixquiac in Zumpango Region (from Craft beer)
Image 49Microbreweries, regional breweries, and brew pubs per capita (from Craft beer)

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Beer, if drunk with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit and promotes health

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— Thomas Jefferson

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