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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.
Beer stein
Beer stein, from German Steinzeugkrug (stoneware tankard): a handled beer vessel, traditionally stoneware, with a hinged pewter lid added under early 1500s covered-container laws. Golden Age 1850-1910; Mettlach led production; Oktoberfest steins remain collectible.
Beer style
Beer style: named beer categories defined by appearance, flavor, strength, and origin; term popularized by Michael Jackson in the 1970s; cataloged by BJCP (2021 guidelines, 34 categories) and Brewers Association.
Belgian Beer Weekend
The Belgian Beer Weekend is a free-admission beer festival held each September on the Grand-Place in Brussels, first held in 1998 and organized by Belgian Brewers, with about 60,000 visitors a year.
Berliner Weisse
Berliner Weisse is a pale, low-alcohol sour wheat beer from Berlin, fermented with Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Lactobacillus brevis, and Brettanomyces bruxellensis; once brewed by 700 Berlin breweries, now revived by craft brewers and served with raspberry or woodruff syrup.
Bira 91
Bira 91 is an Indian craft beer brand launched February 2015 by Ankur Jain under B9 Beverages (91 = India's ISD code). It reached the #2 beer brand rank behind Kingfisher, then suffered a financial crisis leading to Kirin's exit and Jain's 2026 departure.
Birra Moretti
Birra Moretti, founded in 1859 in Udine by Luigi Moretti, is an Italian lager brand, also called L'Autentica; bottom-fermented 4.6% ABV beer with a 1942 moustached-man label, owned by Heineken since 1996.
Blue Moon (beer)
Blue Moon (Blue Moon Belgian White), a 5.4% ABV unfiltered Belgian-style witbier with Valencia orange peel and coriander, created in 1995 by Keith Villa at Coors' Sandlot Brewery, Denver; owned by MillerCoors/Molson Coors, the largest US craft-style brand.
Bock
Bock (Bockbier) is a strong German beer style above 16 degrees Plato and typically over 6.5% ABV, originating in Einbeck, Lower Saxony, and named by Bavarian corruption of that town's name; substyles include Maibock, Doppelbock, and Eisbock.
Boston Beer Company
The Boston Beer Company (NYSE: SAM), founded in Boston in 1984 by Jim Koch and partners, brews Samuel Adams Boston Lager plus Twisted Tea, Truly, Angry Orchard, Dogfish Head, and Sun Cruiser, with major breweries in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Delaware.
BrewDog
BrewDog: Scottish craft beer brand founded 2007 in Fraserburgh by James Watt and Martin Dickie; funded by Equity for Punks crowdfunding (over 200,000 investors, £75m), once valued around £1-2bn, sold to Tilray Brands in 2026 for £33m.
Brewers Association
The Brewers Association is a Boulder, Colorado trade association, formed by merger in 2005, that promotes and protects small and independent American craft brewers and runs the Great American Beer Festival.
Brewery
Brewery: a facility producing beer, from industrial plants to craft microbreweries. Covers the brewing process (mashing, boiling, fermenting), industrial versus craft brewing, history from 18th-century London to Prohibition, and the 2024-2025 U.S. craft contraction.
Brewing
Brewing is the production of beer from malted barley, hops, yeast, and water via mashing, boiling, fermentation, and maturation. Covers ale versus lager yeast, Neolithic origins, and current US, EU, and global industry volumes.
Budweiser
Budweiser is an American pale lager launched in 1876 in St. Louis by Adolphus Busch and Carl Conrad, brewed with rice, first bottled and pasteurized at scale, US number-one beer from 1957, and distinct from Czech Budweiser Budvar.
Budweiser Budvar Brewery
Budweiser Budvar Brewery (Budějovický Budvar, n. p.) is the state-owned Czech brewery in České Budějovice founded 1895, brewing Budweiser Budvar lager from Saaz hops, Moravian barley, and 300 m artesian water; it disputes the Budweiser name with Anheuser-Busch and sells as Czechvar in North America.
Budweiser Clydesdales
Budweiser Clydesdales: Anheuser-Busch's Clydesdale horse teams, introduced April 1933 to celebrate Prohibition's repeal; geldings at least 18 hands with bay coats, white stockings, and blazes, famous for Super Bowl ads and the Dalmatian mascot.
Bürgerbräukeller
Bürgerbräukeller: Munich beer hall (1885–1979, Rosenheimer Straße) hosting the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch start and Georg Elser's failed 1939 bomb attack on Hitler, demolished 1979.
Cambridge Beer Festival
The Cambridge Beer Festival is a beer and cider festival held on Jesus Green in Cambridge, England, first held in 1974 and run by the Cambridge branch of CAMRA.
Carling Black Label
Carling Black Label, also known as Carling Beer, is a lager beer brand best known as one of South Africa's leading beers, produced by SAB since 1966.
Carling Brewery
Carling Brewery, founded by Thomas Carling in London, Ontario (1840 or 1843), became Carling O'Keefe and merged into Molson in 1989; the Carling brand, including Black Label, is now Molson Coors' UK-brewed, Britain's largest beer brand.
Carlsberg Group
Carlsberg Group: Danish brewery and beverage group founded in 1847 by J.C. Jacobsen, one of the world's leading brewers, controlled by the Carlsberg Foundation (30% capital, 78% votes), with brands Tuborg, Carlsberg, 1664 Blanc, Grimbergen, and, since 2025, Britvic soft drinks.
Castlemaine Perkins
Castlemaine Perkins, Brisbane brewery at Milton founded 1878 by the Fitzgerald brothers, brewer of XXXX beer; XXXX Bitter launched 1924, merged with Perkins 1928, now owned by Lion/Kirin.
Cervecería Bucanero
Cervecería Bucanero is a Cuban brewery founded in 1997, owned equally by Ambev's Canadian subsidiary and a Cuban state company, and makes Cristal and Bucanero beers.
Cerveza Cristal
Cerveza Cristal is a Peruvian pale lager beer, 4.8% alcohol by volume, brewed since 1922 by the Lima brewery Backus & Johnston and sold as Peru's leading beer brand.
Chimay Brewery
Chimay Brewery (Bières de Chimay), a Trappist brewery at Scourmont Abbey near Chimay, Belgium, founded 1850 and brewing since 1862; known for Red, White, and Blue beers, Trappist cheese, and the Chimay-Wartoise charitable foundation.
Colt 45 (malt liquor)
Colt 45 is an American malt liquor brand introduced in 1963 by Baltimore's National Brewing Company, named for Colts running back Jerry Hill, now owned by Pabst, 5.61% ABV in the US, famous for Billy Dee Williams' "It works every time" slogan.