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Beenie Man
Beenie Man, born Anthony Moses Davis, is a Jamaican dancehall deejay and singer. He is known as the "King of Dancehall" and won a Grammy in 2001.
BEENOS
BEENOS Inc. (BEENOS株式会社) is a Japanese e-commerce group founded in Tokyo in 1999 as Netprice, known for cross-border shopping services Buyee and tenso.com, and delisted in 2025 after acquisition by LY Corporation.
Beenzino
Beenzino (빈지노) is the stage name of Lim Sung-bin, a South Korean rapper known for melodic, sing-song rap and the 2013 hit single "Dali, Van, Picasso."
Beep, beep (sound)
Beep, beep: a short, typically high-pitched single tone made by machines, standardized for consumer products in ISO 24500:2010; word coined by Arthur C. Clarke in The Sands of Mars (1951); used in alarms, telephony, and perception research.
Beeper (software)
Beeper, also known as Beeper Cloud or formerly NovaChat, is a universal chat app combining networks like WhatsApp and Signal into one inbox, founded in 2020.
Beer
Beer is an alcoholic beverage brewed from malted barley, hops, yeast, and water, and one of the oldest fermented drinks, with evidence reaching back thousands of years.
Beer and spirits journalism
Beer and spirits journalism is the branch of food media that reports on beer, whisky, spirits, and cocktails, with dedicated American drinks writers dating only from 1933.
Beer bottle
Beer bottle: the glass container for beer, historically sealed with William Painter's 1892 crown cap; brown glass limits lightstruck flavor, and LCA studies weigh bottles against cans and kegs on carbon footprint.
Beer culture
Beer culture is the set of customs, social spaces, and appreciation practices built around drinking beer, spanning Mesopotamian taverns, British pub rounds, German toasts, and the modern taproom.
Beer die
Beer die, also called snappa, is a four-player drinking game where teams toss a die high across a table, scoring when opponents fail to catch it one-handed.
Beer garden
Beer garden (Biergarten): outdoor drinking venue on wooden benches under trees, originating in Munich's 1539 brewing-ordinance cellar shade; largest is the 7,000-seat Hirschgarten; spread to the US via German immigrants.
Beer glassware
Beer glassware: the shaped vessels (nonic pint, pilsner, weizen, stange, tulip, Teku, goblet, stein) used to serve beer, managing foam head, aroma, carbonation, and temperature, with sensory research on curvature and lip thickness effects.
Beer Hall Putsch
The Beer Hall Putsch (Munich Putsch, Hitlerputsch) was the failed Nazi coup of 8-9 November 1923 in Munich, led by Adolf Hitler from the Bürgerbräukeller beer hall; it collapsed at the Odeonsplatz, led to Hitler's imprisonment and the party's brief ban, and pushed the Nazis toward legal electoral politics.
Beer in Africa
Beer in Africa spans commercial lager brewing by multinational brewers and traditional sorghum beers like umqombothi and chibuku, with 97% of Sub-Saharan beer volumes produced locally in 2025.
Beer in Australia
Beer in Australia: introduced via the HMS Endeavour in 1770, first brewed by James Squire from 1790, oldest brewery Cascade (1824). Now dominated by Lion/Kirin and Asahi (about 85% share) alongside 600+ independent craft brewers, with declining per-capita consumption.
Beer in Belgium
Beer in Belgium: national brewing culture spanning lambic, gueuze, Trappist, abbey, and saison styles, with almost 1,500 beer types, 395 breweries, about 70% of production exported, and UNESCO intangible heritage status since 2016.
Beer in Canada
Beer in Canada is a brewing industry and cultural tradition dating to the early 1600s in New France; it remains the top-selling alcoholic beverage, led by Molson and Labatt.
Beer in China
Beer in China is dominated by cheap pale lager in the world's largest beer market, led by Tsingtao since 1903, with production declining since 2014 as craft brewing grows.
Beer in England
Beer in England (English beer): a brewing tradition since Neolithic times, known for cask ale and styles like IPA, porter, and bitter; today 7.6 billion UK pints yearly, 80% from four foreign-owned brewers, with about 1,600 independents holding 7%.
Beer in Germany
Beer in Germany: lager-centered brewing tradition shaped by the 1516 Reinheitsgebot. Top EU producer (7.4 billion litres, 2025), over 1,500 breweries, ~7,000 brands, sales in long-term decline.
Beer in India
Beer in India: lager-dominated beer market rooted in British colonial brewing (Edward Dyer's Lion IPA, Shimla). Strong 8% lager is 80% of volume; Heineken, Carlsberg, and AB InBev hold over 75%; per capita consumption is about 2 liters.
Beer in Italy
Beer in Italy is the brewing culture of a historically wine-drinking country, where craft microbreweries have grown since 1996 and beer surpassed wine in popularity in 2010.
Beer in Japan
Beer in Japan is a Western import that became the country's dominant alcoholic drink, outselling sake in the world's fourth-largest beer market, led by Asahi, Kirin, Suntory, and Sapporo.
Beer in Mexico
Beer in Mexico covers the country's brewing industry and beer culture, built on pale adjunct lagers that made Mexico the world's leading beer exporter by value.
Beer in Poland
Beer in Poland is a major industry: Poland is the EU's third-largest beer producer, making over a tenth of EU beer, about 3.7 billion liters a year.
Beer in Russia and Ukraine
Beer in Russia and Ukraine covers brewing and drinking in both countries: Russian beer was legally a foodstuff until 2011, and Ukraine classifies it as alcohol above 0.5%.
Beer in South Korea
Beer in South Korea: a lager-dominated market founded on two 1933 Japanese colonial breweries, predecessors of Hite and OB, long a duopoly, now joined by Lotte's Kloud, imports, and a growing craft segment.
Beer in the United States
Beer in the United States, also known as beer in America, is produced across four eras, from colonial ales through German lager, Prohibition, and today's craft brewing.
Beer Judge Certification Program
The Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) is a nonprofit founded in 1985 by the AHA and HWBTA that certifies and ranks beer, mead, and cider judges through entrance, tasting, and written proficiency exams and experience points.
Beer measurement
Beer measurement is the set of standardized methods brewers use to quantify beer's color, strength, gravity, extract, and bitterness, using scales such as SRM, Plato, and IBU.