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