Talk:Beer/Archive 7

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Text to be added at the end of the article section titled "History" after the sentence beginning " In 2010, China's beer consumption hit 450 million..."

A recent and widely publicized study suggests that sudden decreases in barley production due to extreme drought and heat could in the future cause substantial volatility in the availability and price of beer.^[1] 128.200.14.73 (talk) 18:49, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

 Done L293D (☎ • ✎) 12:58, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

The source given links to some article which refers to Belgian schools, but the sentence, under the section "Strength", makes it sound like beer is being served in British schools. Please edit. 194.80.199.159 (talk) 16:07, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

 Done Have amended. Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 16:18, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

The current reference on beer being the third most popular drink in the world (after water and tea) is from Max Nelson's history book (2005). This might have been true at the time. But, according to Statistica, beer's average consumption per capita in 2020 is 25.7L, while coffee is 42.6L.

Sources: https://0-www-statista-com.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/outlook/10010000/100/beer/worldwide https://www.statista.com/outlook/30010000/100/coffee/worldwide#market-arpu

80.209.140.50 (talk) 20:49, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

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I would like to add a reference to the statement "The modern pale lager is light in colour with a noticeable carbonation (fizzy bubbles) and a typical alcohol by volume content of around 5%." The reference is the BJCP style guidelines here: https://www.bjcp.org/docs/2015_Guidelines_Beer.pdf Joma888 (talk) 03:41, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

 Done I am not sure this is the best source for this but it doesn't raise any immediate red flags and it does appear to be mentioned in some newspapers here and there so I'll WP:AGF with it... RandomCanadian (talk | contribs) 03:57, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

This picture does not, in fact, show any beer. The reader is left to assume the cup contains millet beer, but if it were not for the context, it might just as well be empty. But I don't think there is any better picture of beer culture in Cameroon available. JIP | Talk 15:14, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

This article could use an addition to its poor card: "Contry of origin: 🇩🇪Germany"

Reason 1: modern beer has hop thanks to a certain Bavarian law.

Reason 2 (a valid reason, according to a certain Wikipedia I have encountered last week): the word "beer" itself comes from German.

Reason 3: for non-hoppy beers, there are words like "stout" or "ale"; "beer" normally refers to the drink with hops.

Feel free to prove me wrong, please. 2A00:1FA0:4A5F:52D3:0:46:A90F:6401 (talk) 21:07, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

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The "ingredients" section is not very good. The article confuses the recipe with the ingredients. Most beers use hops. OK. But is hops really an "ingredient"? How is that possible, given that it is a plant part and beer is a thin liquid? Are the hops ground into a fine (colloidal) dispersion or otherwise suspended? I doubt it. In fact, I doubt that hops exist in any identifiable form in beer. Same with barley, same with yeast, although with yeast its individual organisms are small enough to possibly be dispersed (and not settle). I came here looking for the general composition of a typical generic beer. Sadly, it wasn't to be found. I know that beers contain water, ethanol, carbon dioxide (dissolved), bitters (whatever those are, apparently they include both preservatives and flavorings). How about sugar? What sugars and in what amounts? I suppose some of the 'bitters' are polyphenolics (tannins?) but surely there's better information on the main constituents. And surely it should be mentioned that the composition BEFORE it is fermented CHANGES so that the "ingredients" before may have only a indirect relationship with its composition as sold. So, please fix the article. I'm sure no editor believes that extracts from barley, hops, wheat, etc. are indistinguishable from the agricultural "ingredient". I'm betting few believe "yeast" remains unchanged - it grows, catalyzes, consumes, excretes (esp. CO2), and leaves the liquid medium vastly different that when it was introduced. Shouldn't fermentation be explained in some detail? Sugars from starches, ok, CO2, ok; but what else?40.142.183.146 (talk) 23:04, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

From the section "Etymology":

In Old English and Old Norse, the beer-word did not denote a malted alcoholic drink like ale, but a sweet, potent drink made from honey and the juice of one or more fruits other than grapes, much less ubiquitous than ale, perhaps served in the kind of tiny drinking cups sometimes found in early mediaeval grave goods: a drink more like mead or cider. In German, however, the meaning of the beer-word expanded to cover the meaning of the ale-word already before our earliest surviving written evidence. As German hopped ale became fashionable in England in the late Middle Ages, the English word beer took on the German meaning, and thus in English too, beer came during the early modern period to denote hopped, malt-based alcoholic drinks.

What does "the beer-word" mean? Does it mean the literal word "beer" or whatever word meant "beer" in Old English and Old Norse?

This paragraph should be made clearer. JIP | Talk 18:05, 17 September 2023 (UTC)

Is the source Scandinavian? That actually looks to me like the way they would phrase it in Norse or Swedish, but it sounds odd in English. More than half of the most common English words in everyday use are Scandinavian in origin, but the influence of French played a larger role in our modern syntax. (Very little is left of its Germanic roots.) If so, then it would be talking about the word beer and the word ale, which is how it should be phrased.

It should probably also be mentioned (if it's not already) that another theory is that it might have come from the Latin word biber, meaning "a drink" (for example, the English word imbibe, meaning "to drink"), although beer was considered an exotic Egyptian drink on the Europe side of the Mediterranean, English has a tendency to adopt words from other languages and twist and change them to fit its own needs. There's no clar consensus, except that the in etymology the transition of a word from one meaning to another is often far more figurative than literal. Zaereth (talk) 00:28, 19 September 2023 (UTC)