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Introduction

At the Café by Édouard Manet, circa 1879

Beer is one of the oldest alcoholic drinks in the world, the most widely consumed, and the third most popular drink after water and tea. Beer is produced by the brewing and fermentation of starches from cereal grains—most commonly malted barley, although wheat, maize (corn), rice, and oats are also used. The fermentation of the starch sugars in the wort produces ethanol and carbonation in the beer. 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.

Some of the earliest writings refer to the production and distribution of beer: the Code of Hammurabi included laws regulating it, and "The Hymn to Ninkasi", a prayer to the Mesopotamian goddess of beer, a recipe for it.

Beer is distributed in bottles and cans and is also commonly available on draught, particularly 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).

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 crawling, pub quizzes, and pub games. (Full article...)

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Saison Dupont Vieille Provision, the archetype for modern saisons

Saison (French, "season," French pronunciation: [sɛzɔ̃]) is a pale-colored ale that is highly carbonated, dry, fruity, spicy, and often bottle conditioned. It was historically brewed with low alcohol levels, but modern productions of the style have moderate to high levels of alcohol. Along with several other varieties, it is generally classified as a farmhouse ale. (Full article...)

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Gulden Draak

33cl bottle of Gulden Draak

Gulden Draak (Dutch for Golden Dragon) is a dark Belgian beer with high alcohol by volume (10.5%), brewed by Brouwerij Van Steenberge in Ertvelde, East Flanders. It is named after the golden dragon at the top of the belfry in Ghent.

There are several variants, including Gulden Draak 9000 Quadruple. (Full article...)

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Carl Jacobsen painted by August Jerndorff (1893)

Carl Christian Hillman Jacobsen (2 March 1842 – 11 January 1914) was a Danish brewer, art collector and philanthropist. Though often preoccupied with his cultural interests, Jacobsen was a shrewd and visionary businessman and initiated the transition of the brewery Carlsberg from a local Copenhagen brewery to the multinational conglomerate that it is today. (Full article...)

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• ... that the debate in "Game On" invokes the beer question?
• ... that Pope Pius IX gave the monks of Saint Vincent Archabbey permission to brew Saint Vincent Beer?
• ... that the patu clubs on the New Zealand threepence were compared to bottles of ginger beer?
• ... that Figueroa Mountain Brewing Company claimed in 2017 to be brewing beer "around the clock – 22 and a half hours every day" in order to keep up with demand?
• ... that at the 1965 World Pentathlon Championships, Herbert Polzhuber was said to have drunk ten beers and a bottle of cognac before firing his pistol at the ground and passing out?
• ... that a beer named after the barley variety Golden Promise was not brewed using the variety?

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Worthington Brewery, also known as Worthington & Co. and Worthington's, is a British brewer founded by William Worthington in Burton upon Trent in 1761. It is the third oldest continuously brewed British beer brand, after Shepherde Neame and Whitbread. The best known Worthington beers are its Creamflow nitrokeg bitter and White Shield India Pale Ale.

When William Worthington died in 1800, his brewery was one of the largest outside London. Horace Tabberer Brown, a chemist employed by Worthington, pioneered brewing science in the separation and cultivation of pure yeast strains from 1866, and the brewery was the first in the world to systematically use a laboratory in the brewing process from 1872. Worthington & Co merged with its major Burton rival Bass in 1927. Until the 1960s the Worthington brand, in bottled form, ranked alongside Bass and Guinness as one of only three beers with nationwide distribution. However, bottled beer sales declined as keg beer grew in popularity throughout the 1960s, and the Worthington brewery closed in 1965. The beers continued to be brewed elsewhere, and the Worthington brand has remained prominent up to the present day. (Full article...)

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Grimbergen blond beer (Belgium)

Grimbergen blond beer (Belgium)

Credit: Jérôme Sautret (Zubro)

Grimbergen blond beer (Belgium)

General images

The following are images from various beer- and brewing-related articles on Wikipedia.

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  Spontaneous fermentation at Timmermans in Belgium (from Brewing)
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  A 16th-century brewery (from History of beer)
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  Modern closed fermentation vessels (from Brewing)
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  Steamworks Brewing, Vancouver (from Craft beer)
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  A selection of French craft beers (from Craft beer)
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  Irish Craft Beer Festival, 2015 (from Craft beer)
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  Malted barley before kilning or roasting (from Brewing)
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  A growler of beer from Flounder Brewing, a nanobrewery in New Jersey, US (from Craft beer)
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  Craft brewing at Allagash in Portland, Maine (from Craft beer)
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  A mash tun at the Bass Museum in Burton-upon-Trent (from Brewing)
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  Hop cone grown in a hop field, Hallertau, Germany (from Brewing)
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  Põhjala Brewery, Estonia (from Craft beer)
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  Gambrinus – king of beer (from History of beer)
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  Brew kettles at Brasserie La Choulette in France (from Brewing)
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  A replica of ancient Egyptian beer, brewed from emmer wheat by the Courage brewery in 1996 (from History of beer)
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  Microbreweries, regional breweries, and brew pubs per capita (from Craft beer)
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  Cask ales with gravity dispense at a beer festival (from Brewing)
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  Conditioning tanks at Anchor Brewing Company (from Brewing)
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  Traditional fermenting building (center) and modern fermenting building (left) in Pilsner Urquell Brewery (Czech Republic) (from History of beer)
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  A yard of ale at Jolly Brewery, Taiwan (from Craft beer)
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  A hydrometer measures beer's specific gravity (from History of beer)
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  Open vessels showing fermentation taking place (from Brewing)
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  World beer consumption per capita (from History of beer)
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  Zoigl beers from the communal brewhouses of Oberpfalz in Germany (from Craft beer)
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  A 16th-century brewery (from Brewing)
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  A funerary model of a bakery and brewery, from the Eleventh dynasty of Egypt, c. 2009–1998 BCE (from History of beer)
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  Casks of real ale from British microbreweries at a beer festival (from Craft beer)
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  Diatomaceous earth, used to create a filtration bed (from Brewing)
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  A can of Juicy Ass IPA from Flying Monkeys Craft Brewery in Barrie, Ontario, Canada (from Craft beer)
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  Great Leap Brewing operates a chain of brewpubs in China (from Craft beer)
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  Alulu 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)
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  Rock mortars in Raqefet Cave, used to make beer during the Stone Age. (from History of beer)
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  Mexican craft beer from Tequixquiac in Zumpango Region (from Craft beer)
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  Dogo Beer from Minakuchi-shuzō microbrewery in Matsuyama, Japan (from Craft beer)
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  Lauter tun (from Brewing)
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  Yeast ring used by Swedish homebrewers in the 19th century to preserve the yeast between brewing sessions. (from History of beer)
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  Bill Urquhart at Litchborough Brewery (from Craft beer)
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  The Caledonian Brewery, founded in 1869, Edinburgh, Scotland (from History of beer)
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  A beer sommelier tapping a barrel for a taste at Nebraska Brewing Company (from Craft beer)
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  Smoked beer from the Schlenkerla brewpub in Bamberg, Germany (from Craft beer)
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  D. 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 overall. (from Craft beer)
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  The 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)
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  Spent grain, a brewing by-product (from Brewing)
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  Philistine pottery beer jug (from History of beer)
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  Bottling beer in a modern facility, 1945, Australia (from History of beer)
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  Robohop, a session IPA from Cervisiam in Oslo, Norway (from Craft beer)
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  Bergenhus microbrewery, Bergen, Norway (from Craft beer)
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  Castaña, a smoked beer with chestnuts from Cerex in Extremadura, Spain (from Craft beer)
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  Pasteur Street Brewing, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (from Craft beer)

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“ Beer, if drunk with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit and promotes health ” — Thomas Jefferson

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• List of World Beer Cup awards

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WikiProject Beer is an association of Wikipedians with an interest in beer and beer-related subjects. They have come together to coordinate the development of beer and brewery articles here on Wikipedia. Additionally, other groups have formed other projects that entertain subjects that are directly related to beer, bartending and pubs. Additionally, the mixed drinks project covers topics that include beer cocktails. If any of these subjects pique your interest, please feel free to visit their projects. These groups would love to have you participate!

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