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Oktoberfest celebrations
Oktoberfest celebrations: the Munich Wiesn, world's largest folk festival, founded 1810 for Ludwig I's wedding, held on Theresienwiese; record 7.4 million visitors and 6.7 million Maß of beer in 2026.
Olde English 800
Olde English 800 (OE800, "8 ball") is an American malt liquor introduced in 1964, brewed by Miller since 1999 under Molson Coors, sold at 5.9% to 8% ABV and once the top-selling US malt liquor brand.
Pabst Blue Ribbon
Pabst Blue Ribbon (PBR), also called Pabst, is an American 4.7% ABV adjunct lager founded in Milwaukee in 1844, named for blue ribbons tied on bottles from 1882, now contract-brewed by Pabst Brewing Company.
Pale ale
Pale ale: a top-fermented beer style built on pale malt with prominent hop bitterness, originating in Burton upon Trent, England, from the 1820s; family includes English bitter, American pale ale, and IPA.
Pale lager
Pale lager: family of pale, bottom-fermented, lagered beers from Czech pilsner and Bavarian Helles to International Pale Lager (4.5-6% ABV, 18-25 IBU), first brewed at Plzeň in 1842; the dominant global commercial lager style.
Peroni Brewery
Peroni Brewery (Birra Peroni) is an Italian brewing company founded in 1846 by Francesco Peroni, best known for its Peroni lager and Peroni Nastro Azzurro.
Pint glass
Pint glass: the standard beer-serving vessel sized to a pint, chiefly the UK nonic imperial pint (568 ml, crown-stamped since 1698) and the US shaker pint (473 ml); covers legal measures, glass shapes, history, and pouring research.
Porter (beer)
Porter is a dark, well-hopped beer style that developed from London brown beer around 1720, named for the porters who drank it. It powered the first industrial-scale breweries, spawned stout as a stronger variant, declined after World War I, and revived in craft brewing.
Prohibition in Canada
Prohibition in Canada was the banning of alcohol sales by most provinces, mostly from 1915 to the late 1920s, with a federal ban from 1918 to 1920. It was replaced by government-controlled liquor monopolies.
Pub names
Pub names: traditional names of British public houses, derived from medieval pictorial signs (Red Lion, Crown, Royal Oak, White Hart). Signs preceded names because most customers were illiterate; a 1393 law required signs for ale inspection.
Reinheitsgebot
Reinheitsgebot, the German Beer Purity Law, originating in the 1516 Bavarian decree of Wilhelm IV limiting beer to barley, hops, and water; nationalized in 1906, codified in the Vorläufiges Biergesetz, and limited by a 1987 ECJ ruling on imports.
Saison
Saison (French for "season") is a dry, highly attenuated Belgian farmhouse ale from Wallonia, historically brewed in winter for summer farm workers; defined by peppery, estery saison yeast, 85–95% attenuation, high carbonation, and benchmark Saison Dupont.
Sake Museum Ponshu-kan
Ponshu-kan (ぽんしゅ館) is a Niigata sake museum and shop chain opened in 1995 at Echigo-Yuzawa Station, with branches at Nagaoka and Niigata stations, offering coin-operated tasting of all 89 prefectural breweries' brands (111 labels) and sake baths, bomb onigiri, and local foods.
Samuel Adams (beer)
Samuel Adams (Sam Adams) is a craft beer brand of The Boston Beer Company, founded by Jim Koch in 1984. Flagship Boston Lager debuted in Boston on April 15, 1985; NYSE ticker SAM since 1995.
San Miguel Beer
San Miguel Beer is a lager first produced in 1890 by La Fabrica de Cerveza de San Miguel in Manila, whose flagship is San Miguel Pale Pilsen.
San Miguel Corporation
San Miguel Corporation is a Philippine diversified conglomerate founded in 1890 as Southeast Asia's first brewery, headquartered in Mandaluyong City and now spanning food and beverage, fuel, energy, and infrastructure.
Scotch Ale
Scotch ale, also called wee heavy or Strong Scotch Ale, is a strong, malty Scottish top-fermented beer (BJCP 17C), 6.5-10% ABV, low-hopped, cool-fermented, descended from Edinburgh Ales, with no peat-smoked malt.
Sean's Bar
Sean's Bar, Athlone, Ireland: pub claiming AD 900 founding by Luain Mac Luighdeach, certified Ireland's oldest pub by Guinness in 2004; building dated c.1725, first record 1738.
Shandy
A shandy, also called shandygaff, is a low-alcohol drink made by mixing beer with lemonade or another soft drink, known as a Radler in Germany.
Shower beer
Shower beer: beer consumed while showering, a 2000s slang term and internet meme with a Reddit community, branded beers (PangPang/Snask, Champion), and practical style and safety guidance.
Smithwick's
Smithwick's (pronounced Smiddicks) is an Irish red ale founded in 1710 by John Smithwick and Richard Cole in Kilkenny, Ireland; brewed there 300 years, taken over by Guinness in 1964-1965, now a Diageo brand.
Sour beer
Sour beer, also known as sour ale, is beer defined by high organic acid content from fermentation with bacteria such as Lactobacillus, giving a distinctly acidic taste.
Spuds MacKenzie
Spuds MacKenzie, the "Original Party Animal," was a fictional bull terrier mascot for Bud Light, created by DDB Needham around 1982, debuted on TV in Super Bowl XXI 1987, played by female dog Honey Tree Evil Eye, retired 1989.
Steam beer
Steam beer, also called California Common, is an American beer style from Gold Rush-era San Francisco in which lager yeast is fermented at warm ale temperatures without refrigeration; Anchor Brewing trademarked the name.
Stella Artois
Stella Artois is a Belgian pilsner from Leuven, owned by AB InBev, tracing to the 1366 Den Hoorn brewery; launched as a Christmas beer in 1926, 5% or 5.2% ABV, sold in over 80 countries.
Stout
Stout: dark, roasty top-fermented beer family, originally a strong porter; styles include dry Irish (Guinness), milk, oatmeal, foreign extra, and imperial stout; ABV 3.5-13%.
Stroh Brewery Company
Stroh Brewery Company: Detroit brewery founded by Bernhard Stroh in 1850, famous for fire-brewed Bohemian-style lager and its lion crest. Grew into America's third-largest brewer before debt from the Schlitz and Heileman acquisitions ended it in 1999; the Stroh's brand now belongs to Pabst.
Ten Cent Beer Night
Ten Cent Beer Night: Cleveland Indians beer promotion, June 4, 1974, Cleveland Municipal Stadium, vs Texas Rangers; 10-cent Stroh's beer, 25,134 fans, drunken riot, game forfeited 5-5 to Texas.
Tennent Caledonian
Tennent Caledonian, also Tennent Caledonian Breweries, is the Glasgow brewing business behind Tennent's lager at Wellpark Brewery, formed in 1966 and owned by C&C Group since its £180 million purchase from AB InBev in 2009.
The Blind Beggar
The Blind Beggar, Whitechapel Road pub in London's East End, built 1894 by Robert Spence; former Manns Albion Brewery tap, home of the first modern brown ale, linked to William Booth's 1865 sermon and Ronnie Kray's 1966 murder of George Cornell.