Christmas beers, also known as Winter Warmers, are a tradition dating back at least 2,000 years, with the ancients making highly intoxicating brews to celebrate winter’s Saturnalia. This brewmaking evolved into a holiday celebration when medieval monks, the world’s first professional brewers, pulled out their finest ingredients to produce soul-warming styles for the occasion. Today brewers continue the custom, either with centuries-old recipes or newfangled concoctions with spices and herbs, enabling thirsty beer fans to put aside their everyday favorites each winter and deck the halls with the world’s most flavorful ales and lagers, brewed especially for the holidays. Beer expert Don Russell taps into holiday cheer with a look at the world’s best--unusual, exotic, rich, one-of-a-kind brews--detailing the styles and flavors that will leave beer lovers in a froth. From Smuttynose Winter Ale to Santa’s Butt to Troegs Mad Elf to Left Hand XXXmas, there’s a beer for everyone, even a Hanukkah beer, He’Brew Jewbelation. Including funny tales and trivia behind the beers, homebrew recipes and food recipes with Christmas beer as an ingredient, and instructions for building and cellaring your own vintage holiday brews so you can enjoy Christmas 365 days a year, Christmas Beer will put even the most curmudgeonly beer drinker in the holiday spirit. Cheers!
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The modern history of beer in Bulgaria (Bulgarian:, pivo or, bira) dates back to the 19th century, when it was introduced to the country by foreigners (from AustriaHungary, France and Switzerland) shortly before the Liberation of Bulgaria. Until then, beer was practically unknown in what used to be a mainly rakia and winedrinking country. Today, Bulgaria ranks 21st by beer consumption per capita, with 59.5 litres a year. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 Publication Date: 2010/12/19 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.19 inches
Beer in Belgium varies from the popular pale lager to lambic beer and Flemish red. Belgian beerbrewings origins go back to the Middle Ages. There are approximately 125 breweries in the country, ranging from international giants to microbreweries; in Europe only Germany, France and the United Kingdom are home to more breweries. Belgian breweries produce about 800 standard beers. When special oneoff beers are included, the total number of Belgian beers is approximately 8700. Belgians drink 93 litres of beer a year on average. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 100 Publication Date: 2010/04/26 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.23 inches
Kick back and relax with a liter of brew! Some things are classics, like lederhosen, Wiener Schnitzel and beer boots. Kick up your heels and celebrate tradition with a one-liter beer boot. You might
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Brazil is the worlds fourth largest market for beer with over 88 million barrels produced in 2010 and annual per capita consumption of 53.3 litres. The tradition of brewing in Brazil dates back to German immigration in the early nineteenth century. The first breweries date from the 1830s, although the brand Bohemia is claimed to be the first Brazilian beer, with production starting in 1853 in the city of Petropolis, Rio de Janeiro. Actually, Bohemia is the oldest Brazilian beer which is still under production (now owned by AnheuserBusch InBev). Naturally, many breweries appeared and disappeared in that period like Ritter from Rio Grande do Sul and Imperial Fabrica de Cerveja Nacional from Rio de Janeiro. Two important brands, Antarctica and Brahma, started production in the 1880s. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 104 Publication Date: 2010/12/19 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.25 inches
Beer Me Beer Mini Button Add fun accents to jackets, backpacks, or mix 'n match our Mini Buttons. Our Mini Buttons are the perfect size for trading and collecting. Pin 'em on1 inch diameter. Metal shell. Mylar/UV protecting cover. Pinned metal back
Beer is like art and so this picture of three beers is sure to please any beer fan. This design on a shirt, hat, sweater, mug, coaster, or sticker makes a great beer gift or beer present. Funny Journal Scribble important stuff - lyrics, recipes, addresses, and more. Our Wire-O bound, 160 page journal has your choice of papers and measures 5 x 8, a handy on-the-go size to fit in your backpack. Get creative and let the muse flow. Back cove
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Beer has been produced in Scotland for approximately 5,000 years. The Celtic tradition of using bittering herbs remained in Scotland longer than the rest of Europe. The two main cities of Scotland, Glasgow and Edinburgh, are where, historically, the main breweries developed; and Edinburgh, in particular, became a noted centre for the export of beer around the world. By the end of the 20th century, small breweries had sprung up all over Scotland. Despite a widespread belief that beers in Scotland used fewer hops than in England, all the available evidence shows that the Scots imported hops from around the world and used them extensively. Brewing in Scotland goes back 5,000 years; archaeologist Merryn Dineley has suggested that ale could have been made from barley at Skara Brae and at other sites dated to the Neolithic. The ale would have been flavoured with meadowsweet in the manner of a Kvass or Gruit made by various North European tribes including the Celts and the Picts. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 100 Publication Date: 2010/09/23 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.24 inches
While trucking and drinking don?t mix, trucker hats and drinking certainly do. Whether you?re on a long haul or a long weekend, the Beer Mug Trucker Hat is the hat for you. It?s fun, it?s fresh, it?s a giant mug of beer that you wear on your head. What?s not to love? It is as though the ancient god Bacchus came back from the dead and turned into a hat. Or Diogenes turned to fashion. If you love beer (and why would you be reading this if you didn?t?) and you love hats (because you have a head), then you will fall head over heels for the Beer Mug Trucker Hat (and not just because of the beer). Finally, a party hat for the working stuff! The Beer Mug Trucker Hat is the pinnacle in booze-hat technologies.