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Brazil is the world's third largest beer market, behind China and the US, with beer volumes in 2015 pegged at 139 million hectoliters. [2] Per capita consumption has declined, dropping from 67 liters in 2012 to around 61 liters in 2016.
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 ...
The first railway in Brazil is inaugurated by Pedro II in Rio de Janeiro, built by industrialist Irineu Evangelista de Sousa. [111] 1859: 5 May: Border Treaty between Brazil and Venezuela: the two countries agree their borders should be traced at the water divide between the Amazon and the Orinoco basins. [112] 1862: 26 June: Brazil adopts the ...
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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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).
But beer brands across the board are suffering, largely due to inflation-induced price hikes turning off customers. Beer prices rose almost 6% from April 2022 to 2023, and over 70% since 2000.
In Denmark, the usual consumption of beer appears to have been a gallon per day for adult laborers and sailors. [21] It is important to note that modern beer is much stronger than the beers of the past. While current beers are 3–5% alcohol, the beer drunk in the historical past was generally 1% or so. [citation needed] This was known as ...