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The Eagle and Child
The Eagle and Child ("Bird and Baby") is a Grade II listed pub at 49 St Giles', Oxford, where the Inklings, including Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, met. Closed since 2020, it was bought by the Ellison Institute of Technology in 2023 and is being restored by Foster + Partners for a planned 2027 reopening.
Traditional African beers
Traditional African beers are opaque, sour, low-alcohol beverages made by fermenting sorghum, maize, or millet, known as umqombothi in South Africa and dolo in Burkina Faso.
Trappist beer
Trappist beer: beer brewed under Trappist monk supervision and certified with the ITA's Authentic Trappist Product label; ten abbeys brew it, distinct from abbey beer.
Tripel
Tripel is a strong golden Belgian abbey ale of 7.5–9.5% ABV, pale malt plus added sugar, dry and well hopped; first commercialized as Witkap Pater (1932) and defined by Westmalle Tripel, distinct from darker dubbel and quadrupel.
Tsingtao Brewery (青岛啤酒)
Tsingtao Brewery (青岛啤酒) is a Chinese brewery founded in Qingdao in 1903 by German and British merchants, described as the world's fifth-largest beer producer and exported to over 100 countries.
Tuborg Brewery
Tuborg (Tuborgs Fabrikker), Danish brewery founded in Hellerup on 13 May 1873 by Philip W. Heyman; first beer 1875; merged with Carlsberg in 1970. Now Carlsberg's largest brand by volume, a bottom-fermented pilsner sold in about 50 countries.
United Breweries Group
United Breweries Group (UB Group), Bengaluru-headquartered Indian brewing conglomerate founded 1915 by Thomas Leishman; built by the Mallya family, now with Heineken holding ~61.5% of United Breweries Limited, maker of Kingfisher beer, and Diageo controlling former flagship United Spirits.
Wheat beer
Wheat beer (Weissbier, Hefeweizen, Witbier) is beer brewed with a large wheat proportion alongside barley malt, often hazy. German law requires at least 50% wheat malt; banana-clove yeast character distinguishes Weissbier from spiced Belgian witbier and clean American wheat beer.
White Claw Hard Seltzer
White Claw Hard Seltzer is a 5% ABV alcoholic seltzer launched in the US in 2016 by Mark Anthony Group, made from seltzer water, a gluten-free alcohol base, and fruit flavor; it leads the global hard seltzer market with about 58% share and spans Surge, Clawtails, and Zero Proof lines.
Widget (beer)
Widget (beer): a small hollow device, invented at Guinness in Dublin in 1968 by Tony Carey and Sammy Hildebrand, placed in cans or bottles of nitrogenated beer such as Guinness Draught; it releases a pressurized jet of beer and nitrogen on opening to create a draught-style creamy foam head.
Wort
Wort: (1) the sugary malt-extract liquid, 80-90% water, that yeast ferments into beer, made by mashing and boiled with hops; (2) an archaic Old English word (wyrt) for plant or herb surviving in names like St. John's wort and mugwort. Also German Wort (word).
XXXX (beer)
XXXX (four-ex) is an Australian beer brand brewed since 1878 by Castlemaine Perkins at Milton, Brisbane, now owned by Lion (Kirin). Known for XXXX Bitter (1924) and XXXX Gold (1991), it is a Queensland icon whose Xs mark traditional beer strength.
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, a historic pub at 145 Fleet Street, London, rebuilt c.1667 after the Great Fire though it claims 1538; Grade II listed Samuel Smith pub famed for literary patrons including Dickens, Johnson, and Twain, and the parrot Polly.
Yuengling
Yuengling (D.G. Yuengling & Son) is America's oldest brewery, founded 1829 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, as the Eagle Brewery; family-owned, known for Traditional Lager, and largest U.S. craft brewer.
Zima (drink)
Zima (Russian for winter) was Coors's clear, citrus-flavored malt beverage, launched in 1992, peaking at about 1.3 million barrels in 1994, withdrawn in the U.S. in 2008, and revived in limited runs and in Japan.