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The tradition of brewing in Brazil dates back to German immigration in the early nineteenth century. The first breweries date from the 1830s. Bohemia is claimed to be the first Brazilian beer, with production starting in 1853 in the city of Petrópolis , in the state of Rio de Janeiro , and is the oldest still in production (now owned by ...
Beer has been brewed by Armenians since ancient times. One of the first confirmed written evidences of ancient beer production is Xenophon's reference to "wine made from barley" in one of the ancient Armenia villages, as described in his 5th century B.C. work Anabasis: "There were stores within of wheat and barley and vegetables, and wine made from barley in great big bowls; the grains of ...
The term and trend spread to the United States in the 1980s, where it eventually was used as a designation of breweries that produce fewer than 15,000 U.S. beer barrels (1,800,000 liters) (475,000 U.S. gallons) annually.
Ambev, formally Companhia de Bebidas das Américas and Companhia Brasileira de Bebidas, is a Brazilian brewing company now merged into Anheuser-Busch InBev. Its name translates to "Americas' Beverage Company", hence the "Ambev" abbreviation. It was created on July 1, 1999, with the merger of two breweries, Brahma and Antarctica.
The company has 6 industrial plants located in Petrópolis, Boituva, Teresópolis, Rondonópolis, Alagoinhas and Itapissuma, and operates in Brazil, Germany and Paraguay. The company competes with AmBev, Brasil Kirin, Heineken and others. In September 2011, the beers produced by the company took second place in the Brazilian ranking. [1]
An interfaith coalition is pressing the world's largest brewer to remove the name of a Hindu god from its beer brand. [3] Brahma is a beer produced primarily for the Brazilian domestic market. Brahma was named after Brahma, the Hindu god of creation. [3] Controversially, Brahma is now brewed in the Czech Republic.
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