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The
History of Beer
"I feel wonderful, drinking beer in a blissful
mood, with joy in my heart and a happy liver". These
words were not written by someone in the corner of a pub
one Friday night but by a Sumerian poet around the year
3,000 BC .... |
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Never
ask for 'a beer'
No one goes into a restaurant and requests 'a plate
of food, please'. People do not ask simply for a 'glass
of wine', without specifying, at the very least, whether
they fancy red or white, dry or sweet, perhaps sparkling
or still .... |
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Ingredients
Beer, like many things we take for granted, is little
understood. It is a much more complex drink than many
realize. Beer is the juice of the good earth. Its colours,
from deep copper to ruby black to pale yellow .... |
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Styles
of Beer
The title 'Beer' runs the ganut from dark, hearty
ales to tangy, spritzy gueuzes. The myriad different tastes,
colours, flavours and aromas can, to some extent, be squeezed
into groupings with similar characteristics and ..... |
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A
Civilised Drink
Beer deserves to be treated as a civilised drink;
it may even have been the cause of civilisation. Although
wild grapes and grain were probably both turned into drinks
before either was cultivated, the latter seems to have
been the beginning of farming .... |
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The
Culture of Beer Drinking
The places where we drink are often steeped in history,
none more so than the English Pub with its fascinating
collection of names and inn signs as well as traditional
pub games, pubs, bars and cafes have also conjured up
some .... |
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