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A 16th-century brewery Brewing is the production of beer by steeping a starch source (commonly cereal grains, the most popular of which is barley) in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast. It may be done in a brewery by a commercial brewer, at home by a homebrewer, or communally. Brewing has taken place since around the 6th millennium BC, and archaeological evidence ...
With an annual beer production of 24.14 billion litres in 2019, and global revenues of 23.894 billion euro in 2019, [6] Heineken N.V. is the number one brewer in Europe and one of the largest brewers by volume in the world. [7] Heineken's Dutch breweries are located in Zoeterwoude, 's-Hertogenbosch and Wijlre.
Today, there are over 4,000 craft breweries in the United States [53] and the craft beer industry employs over 100,000 individuals brewing 15.6 million barrels of beer per year. [54] [55] According to an article by the Associated Press, published in 2016, craft beer is a $22 billion industry in the United States and sales were up 13% year over ...
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The craft beer industry added around 1,340 jobs between 2014 and 2016, a growth of nearly 22 percent. [12] Unique to Portland's beer scene is Zwickelmania which is a weekend long open house that allows tourists free access to all the sites in all of the breweries in the city. [12]
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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Old English: Beore 'beer'. In early forms of English and in the Scandinavian languages, the usual word for beer was the word whose Modern English form is ale. [1] The modern word beer comes into present-day English from Old English bēor, itself from Common Germanic, it is found throughout the West Germanic and North Germanic dialects (modern Dutch and German bier, Old Norse bjórr).