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Various foreign beer brands are available on the Korean market, with interest rapidly increasing. Major brands such as Hoegaarden, Heineken, and Budweiser rank high in the Korean beer market. [38] Due to the cost of malt, Korean beer makers have largely turned to using corn, rice, and tapioca for manufacturing. [39] Korean beer's malt rate is ...
Korean interest in creating alcohol came about during the Koryo Dynasty (946–943), when exposure to foreign cultures and the introduction of distilled water provided the basis and technique for distilling a unique alcohol. [1] Alcohol drinking in Korea has been described as helping create and form ties between family members and friends.
North Korean beer, in contrast, tends not to be as light and is considered relatively good for Asian beer. [3] [4] The British business weekly The Economist caused an uproar in South Korea when it declared in 2012 that "brewing remains just about the only useful activity at which North Korea beats the South."
Despite this many Korean households brewed Sul illegally. In 1916 a liquor tax law was adopted to suppress the Korean home brewers. Western drinks like beer, whisky were introduced in Korea and were popular among the wealthy, in the other hand common people still continued consuming traditional Korean beverages. [1] [7] [8] [21]
North Korean steam beers are so ubiquitous that it can be said that "the average beer is a steam beer". [15] Since rice — a staple in Asian beers — is reserved for food, and barley is not generally used in Korean cooking, there is ample barley to be used in brewing, up to the point of all-barley beers.
OB Lager. The 4th top selling beer in Korea. OB Lager is a pale, 4.4% A.B.V. pale lager available in cans and bottles, and served on draft in Korea. Originally brewed in 1948; the name was changed from OB Lager simply to OB in 2003; the recipe was altered to include rice.
Philistine pottery beer jug. Beer is one of the oldest human-produced drinks. The written history of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia records the use of beer, and the drink has spread throughout the world; a 3,900-year-old Sumerian poem honouring Ninkasi, the patron goddess of brewing, contains the oldest surviving beer-recipe, describing the production of beer from barley bread, and in China ...
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