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At the Café by Édouard Manet, circa 1879

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Beer is one of the oldest and most widely consumed alcoholic drinks in the world, and the third most popular drink overall after water and tea. It is produced by the brewing and fermentation of starches, mainly derived from cereal grains—most commonly from malted barley, though wheat, maize (corn), rice, and oats are also used. During the brewing process, fermentation of the starch sugars in the wort produces ethanol and carbonation in the resulting beer. Most modern beer is brewed with hops, which add bitterness and other flavours and act as a natural preservative and stabilizing agent. Other flavouring agents such as gruit, herbs, or fruits may be included or used instead of hops. In commercial brewing, the natural carbonation effect is often removed during processing and replaced with forced carbonation.

Some of humanity's earliest known writings refer to the production and distribution of beer: the Code of Hammurabi included laws regulating beer and beer parlours, and "The Hymn to Ninkasi", a prayer to the Mesopotamian goddess of beer, served as both a prayer and as a method of remembering the recipe for beer in a culture with few literate people.

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), although it may vary between 0.5% and 20%, with some breweries creating examples of 40% ABV and above.

Beer forms part of the culture of many nations and is associated with social traditions such as beer festivals, as well as a rich pub culture involving activities like pub crawling, pub quizzes and pub games.

When beer is distilled, the resulting liquor is a form of whisky. (Full article...)

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A Black Label Draught in a Johannesburg Pub.

Black Label is a brand of lager distributed by Carling Brewing Company. In several countries, it is also known as Carling Black Label, and in Sweden, it is known as Carling Premier. In the United Kingdom it is now known as just Carling. (Full article...)

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Red Stripe Victoria Bitter Tooheys New Dortmunder Export Newcastle Brown Ale Grimbergen (beer) Guinness Heineken Corona (beer) Budweiser Coors Light Miller Lite Foster's Lager Schwarzbier Tusker (beer) Old Speckled Hen Worthington's White Shield Stones Bitter Boddingtons Bitter Cobra Beer Old Milwaukee Pabst Blue Ribbon Gulden Draak Stella Artois Peeterman Artois Corsendonk Pilsner Urquell Velkopopovický Kozel Drewrys Kingfisher (beer) Australian MAX Bira 91 Samuel Adams (beer) Rolling Rock Rogue Beard Beer Schaefer Beer China Pabst Blue Ribbon Lucky Buddha Beer Snow (beer) Harp Lager

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Heyman photographed by E. Bieber

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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Adolphus Busch Michael Jackson (writer) Frederick Miller Joseph Schlitz Frederick Pabst Charlie Papazian Arthur Guinness Eberhard Anheuser Karl Strauss Sigi Friedmann Josef Groll Sister Doris Engelhard John Molson Susannah Oland I. Patricia Henry Anton Dreher Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken Santiago Graf Freddy Heineken Apiwe Nxusani-Mawela Christina Nyman Dirck Pesser Regina Wauters Rosa Merckx Sara Barton Pierre Celis Samuel Brain James Eadie An de Ryck William McEwan John Young (brewer) Peter Austin (brewer) Michael Thomas Bass (1760–1827) Michael Thomas Bass Cecil Ernest Wells Charrington James Boag I Paddy Fitzgerald W. H. Clark (brewer) Morton Coutts John Primrose (brewer) Terry McCashin Mads Langaard Waldemar Stoud Platou Amund Ringnes (brewery owner, 1840) Søren Anton van der Aa Kühle J. C. Jacobsen Carl Jacobsen Carol Stoudt Henry Weinhard August Anheuser Busch Sr. Jim Patton (brewer) David Yuengling Frank X. Schwab Gottlieb Heileman William Knapman

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

Image 1Bergenhus microbrewery, Bergen, Norway (from Craft brewery and microbrewery)
Image 2Robohop, a session IPA from Cervisiam in Oslo, Norway (from Craft brewery and microbrewery)
Image 3Yard of ale at
Jolly Brewery, Taiwan (from Craft brewery and microbrewery)
Image 4Bottling beer in a modern facility, 1945, Australia (from History of beer)
Image 5The 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 6Malted barley before kilning or roasting (from Brewing)
Image 7
Mikkeller
Beer Geek Breakfast
(from Craft brewery and microbrewery)
Image 8Dogo Beer from Minakuchi-shuzō microbrewery in Matsuyama, Japan (from Craft brewery and microbrewery)
Image 9A hydrometer measures beer's specific gravity (from History of beer)
Image 10Pasteur Street Brewing,
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (from Craft brewery and microbrewery)
Image 11Smoked beer from the historic Schlenkerla brewpub
in Bamberg, Germany. (from Craft brewery and microbrewery)
Image 12The Caledonian Brewery, founded in 1869, Edinburgh, Scotland (from History of beer)
Image 13A mash tun at the Bass Museum in Burton-upon-Trent (from Brewing)
Image 14Modern closed fermentation vessels (from Brewing)
Image 15Rock mortars in Raqefet Cave, used to make beer during the Stone Age. (from History of beer)
Image 16
Jämtland
Påsköl
(from Craft brewery and microbrewery)
Image 17Open vessels showing fermentation taking place (from Brewing)
Image 18A beer sommelier tapping a barrel for a taste at Nebraska Brewing Company (from Craft brewery and microbrewery)
Image 19World beer consumption per capita (from History of beer)
Image 20
Nils Oscar
India Ale
(from Craft brewery and microbrewery)
Image 21Brew kettles at Brasserie La Choulette in France (from Brewing)
Image 22A can of Juicy Ass IPA from Flying Monkeys Craft Brewery in Barrie, Canada (from Craft brewery and microbrewery)
Image 23A 16th-century brewery (from Brewing)
Image 24A 16th-century brewery (from History of beer)
Image 25Casks of real ale from British microbreweries at a beer festival (from Craft brewery and microbrewery)
Image 26Mexican craft beer from Tequixquiac in Zumpango Region (from Craft brewery and microbrewery)
Image 27Irish Craft Beer Festival, 2015 (from Craft brewery and microbrewery)
Image 28Diatomaceous earth, used to create a filtration bed (from Brewing)
Image 29BrewDog bar in Cardiff, Wales (from Craft brewery and microbrewery)
Image 30
Schouskjelleren
Garden of Eden
(from Craft brewery and microbrewery)
Image 31Hop cone in a Hallertau, Germany, hop yard (from Brewing)
Image 32Steamworks Brewing, Vancouver (from Craft brewery and microbrewery)
Image 33Zoigl beers from the communal brewhouses of Oberpfalz in Germany (from Craft brewery and microbrewery)
Image 34Alulu beer receipt – This records a purchase of "best" beer from a brewer, c. 2050 BC from the Sumerian city of Umma in ancient Iraq. (from History of beer)
Image 35Yeast ring used by Swedish homebrewers in the 19th century to preserve the yeast between brewing sessions. (from History of beer)
Image 36Conditioning tanks at Anchor Brewing Company (from Brewing)
Image 37A funerary model of a bakery and brewery, from the Eleventh dynasty of Egypt, circa 2009–1998 BC (from History of beer)
Image 38
Bryghuset Svaneke
Guld
(from Craft brewery and microbrewery)
Image 39A replica of ancient Egyptian beer, brewed from emmer wheat by the Courage brewery in 1996 (from History of beer)
Image 40
Haandbryggeriet
Haandbic
(from Craft brewery and microbrewery)
Image 41Spontaneous fermentation at Timmermans in Belgium (from Brewing)
Image 42Great Leap Brewing operates a chain of brewpubs in China (from Craft brewery and microbrewery)
Image 43Bill Urquhart at Litchborough Brewery (from Craft brewery and microbrewery)
Image 44Põhjala Brewery, Estonia (from Craft brewery and microbrewery)
Image 45D. 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 brewery and microbrewery)
Image 46Lauter tun (from Brewing)
Image 47Traditional fermenting building (center) and modern fermenting building (left) in Pilsner Urquell Brewery (Czech Republic) (from History of beer)
Image 48A growler of beer from Flounder Brewing, a nanobrewery in New Jersey (from Craft brewery and microbrewery)
Image 49Microbreweries, regional breweries, and brew pubs per capita (from Craft brewery and microbrewery)
Image 50Craft brewing at Allagash in Portland, Maine (from Craft brewery and microbrewery)
Image 51
Nøgne Ø
IPA
(from Craft brewery and microbrewery)
Image 52
Närke
Stormaktsporter
(from Craft brewery and microbrewery)
Image 53Spent grain, a brewing by-product (from Brewing)
Image 54Gambrinus–king of beer (from History of beer)
Image 55Cask ales with gravity dispense at a beer festival (from Brewing)