Beer “Beer to us has always been more than the liquid and we want to make sure we keep it that way” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 June 2017 Access to market and fair trade practices may seem like far-away concepts for beer...
Beer “Craft used to be as simple as ‘How good is the beer in the glass?'” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 June 2017 With AB InBev’s recent dagger-to-the-heart acquisition of beer-universally admired Wicked Weed, the polarization between...
Beer “…it really is up to the brewery and the beer fans to be personally mindful about nurturing our beer scene” Author Drew Kaplan Date 20 June 2017 Sometimes, we are caught in very challenging circumstances and it really is up to...
Beer “German brewers still observe a version of the Reinheitsgebot, but Belgian brewers, just across the border, have cheerfully renounced it” Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 June 2017 According to the Bavarian Reinheitsgebot, or Purity Law, of 1516, beer can be made...
Babylonian Talmud, Beer “Being the principal alcoholic beverage of Mesopotamia, beer is discussed at length in the Babylonian Talmud and, naturally, the vocabulary is Mesopotamian” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 June 2017 Being the principal alcoholic beverage of Mesopotamia, it is discussed at length in the...
Beer “The strictures of the Reinheitsgebot have helped turn German brewers into the most resourceful and technically capable in the world” Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 June 2017 A well-made German beer is both tasty and relatively wholesome: in Bavaria, it’s considered...
Beer, Bible “Ancient Israelites, with the possible exception of a few teetotaling Nazirites and their moms, proudly drank beer—and lots of it” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 May 2017 Ancient Israelites, with the possible exception of a few teetotaling Nazirites and their moms,...
Beer “The Reinheitsgebot…had less to do with keeping peasants from poisoning themselves…than with controlling the hops and barley crops” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 May 2017 Beer is less ancient than wine, McGovern went on to say, because it requires...
Beer, Bible “…if ancient Israel did not drink beer, their abstention was unique in the entire ancient Near East” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 May 2017 …the Hebrew Bible records barley (שְׂעֺרָה) as one of the most abundant and important...
Amoraim, Babylonian Talmud, Beer, Late Antiquity, Wine “The contrast between wine culture of Palestine and beer culture of Babylonia is well documented in the Talmud…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 May 2017 One of the important distinctions between the diet of Graeco-Roman Palestine and Babylonia was...