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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, 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. Beer can cause health issues if consumed often or in excess; alcohol is an IARC group 1 carcinogen. (Full article...)

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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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Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer as sold in the PRC in 2017.

China Pabst Blue Ribbon (Chinese: 蓝带啤酒; pinyin: Lán dài píjiǔ) is a brand of beer sold in China. It is produced, marketed and distributed by CBR Brewing Company, Inc., which is a Virgin Islands-owned holding company located in Hong Kong. It jointly owns the brand and breweries along with Guangdong Blue Ribbon Group under a sub-licensing agreement with the Pabst Brewing Company.

According to a Bloomberg Businessweek profile, the CBR Brewing Co. was established in 1988. (Full article...)

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Philip Wulff Heyman (5 November 1837 – 15 December 1893) was a Jewish Danish industrialist who co-founded the Tuborg Brewery. He was also a pioneer of Danish butter and bacon exports to the United Kingdom. (Full article...)

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... that Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority general manager Phillip Eng brews his own beer?
... that almost 45 percent of Taiwan's beer purchases come from rechao restaurants?
... that the Grain Belt Brewery was built with four distinct architectural sections, in homage to the four companies that combined to form it?
... that Farrell's Bar & Grill in Brooklyn continued serving beer in its large containers after a city ban forced it to swap from styrofoam to paper and plastic?
... that the annual operating cost of the Grain Belt Beer Sign dropped from $48,000 to $7,500 after it was renovated with LED lighting?
... that 100 beerhouses were licensed in Brighton (population 40,000) in the first week after the Beerhouse Act 1830 was enacted?

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Boddingtons Brewery was a regional brewery in Manchester, England, which owned pubs throughout the North West. Boddingtons was best known for Boddingtons Bitter (Boddies), a straw-golden, hoppy bitter which was one of the first beers to be packaged in cans containing a widget, giving it a creamy draught-style head.

In the 1990s, the beer was promoted as The Cream of Manchester in a popular advertising campaign credited with raising Manchester's profile. Boddingtons became one of the city's most famous products after Manchester United and Coronation Street. (Full article...)

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Wort

Credit: Stinkzwam, May 2007

A bucket of wort, the liquid extracted from the mashing process during the brewing of beer or whisky. Wort contains the sugars that will be fermented by the brewing yeast to produce alcohol.

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

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