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Brew Pubs Breweries Beer Distributors Beer Labels Beer Festivals Beer deAdditional info: Welcome to our brew pubs, breweries beer homepage beer de ad portal. We are three brew aficionados with an unusual, interactive website and our goal is to link to 25 beer festivals and 600 beer labels from around the world. Our beer website links festival-goers with brew pubs, breweries, beer distributors and microbreweries from Germany, the UK and around the globe. We are offering you the opportunity to get your label in front of thousands of savvy beer drinkers. Site visitors will click on your label and be instantly linked to your website. Each space costs US$400.00 and we will feature your beer label, tag line and web link with tracking. For your interest, you can read here some more, intriguing information about brew pubs, breweries, microbreweries and beer de. A brew pub is a microbrewery, often combined with a restaurant that sells the majority of its beer on premises. The first American brewpub was Grant’s Brewery Pub in Yakima, Washington, which opened in 1982. July 2003 estimates published by the Association of Brewers show there are over a thousand brew pubs in the United States. Over a third of those are in the west coast states of Washington, Oregon and California, with Oregon having the highest number of brew pubs per capita of any state in the country. There are brewpubs in countries other than the U.S., for instance in Ireland, however they are not commonly called brew pubs there; they are simply referred to as pubs. Explicit reference to the fact that certain pub-restaurants brew their own beer on the premises is rarely made in Ireland. Pubs are simply referred to by their name and in case they contain microbreweries it is assumed that the conversation partner is aware of this. Where that is not the case, it is explained with a short sentence such as “They brew their own beer in that pub.” In Dublin, Ireland, there used to be numerous such pubs along the River Liffey in the previous centuries. The number of pubs brewing their own beer markedly declined with the advent of large beer brands but there still are some pubs that do so. In Munich, Germany, most of the brew pubs are not independent but owned by larger breweries. In Britain during the 20th century most of the traditional pubs which brewed their own beer in the brew’ouse round the back of the pub, were bought out by larger breweries and ceased brewing on the premises. One of the last to do so was The Old Swan in Netherton near Dudley. Brewing stopped in 1993 but after a refurbishment of the brewhouse it reopened in 2001. Starting in 1979 there was a revival of brew pubs in the UK, the “Firkin” pubs. The chain finally closed in 1999 after a takeover by Punch Taverns. The first brewpub was the Goose & Firkin in South London. Beer, generically, is any alcoholic beverage produced through the fermentation of sugar suspended in an aqueous medium, and which is not distilled after fermentation. The unfermented sugar solution, called wort, is obtained from steeping or mashing malted grains, usually barley. Alcoholic beverages made from the fermentation of sugars derived from non-grain sources are generally not called “beer” despite being produced by the same yeast-based biochemical reaction. Fermented honey is called mead, fermented apple juice is called cider, fermented pear juice is called perry, and fermented grape juice is called wine. The process of beer production is called brewing. Because the ingredients used to make beer differ from place to place, beer characteristics such as taste and color vary widely, and consequently its type or classification. One of the oldest beverages man has produced, dating back to at least the 5th millennium BC and recorded in the written history of Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, the character of beer has changed drastically over the millennia. The brewing industry is now a huge global business, and today consists mostly of conglomerates formed out of a multitude of smaller producers. While beer is generally an alcoholic beverage, some varieties exist, originating in the Western world, which undergo a process to remove most of the alcohol, producing what is called non-alcoholic beer. If you would like to tell the whole world about your brew pub, brewery, beer label, beer festival or microbrewery do not wait any longer. Let us get your link up on our beer homepage today! |