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BeerCorphttps://beercorp.org/2026-10-29T22:31:36.297ZBeerCorpBeer and food: what to eat with each beer stylehttps://beercorp.org/guides/beer-and-food/2026-10-29T00:00:00.000Z

Beer and food pairing by style: a main dish, a cheese and a dessert for each of the 31 beer styles on BeerCorp.

Beer glassware: which glass for which beerhttps://beercorp.org/guides/beer-glassware/2026-10-29T00:00:00.000Z

Beer glassware by style: tulip, flute, nonic pint, snifter, Stange and more, and which of the 31 beer styles each one suits.

ABV, IBU, SRM and gravity: the numbers on a beer labelhttps://beercorp.org/guides/beer-numbers/2026-10-29T00:00:00.000Z

What the numbers on a beer mean: ABV for strength, IBU for bitterness, SRM and EBC for colour, and original and final gravity, with the BJCP strength bands.

How beer is made, from barley to glasshttps://beercorp.org/guides/how-beer-is-made/2026-10-29T00:00:00.000Z

How beer is made: malting, mashing, lautering, boiling with hops, fermenting, conditioning and packaging, step by step in plain English.

How to taste beer like a judgehttps://beercorp.org/guides/how-to-taste-beer/2026-10-29T00:00:00.000Z

How to taste beer: the five steps beer judges use, from appearance and aroma to flavour, mouthfeel and overall impression, and the words that describe them.

Beer serving temperature: how cold for each stylehttps://beercorp.org/guides/serving-temperature/2026-10-29T00:00:00.000Z

Beer serving temperatures by style, from 4 °C for pale lagers to 13 °C for stouts and barleywines, and why colder is not always better.

1842: how Plzeň gave the world golden lagerhttps://beercorp.org/history/birth-of-pilsner/2026-10-29T00:00:00.000Z

The birth of Pilsner: 36 barrels poured away in 1838, a new brewery, a Bavarian brewer called Josef Groll, and the first golden lager, served on 11 November 1842.

The Reinheitsgebot: Bavaria's beer law of 1516https://beercorp.org/history/reinheitsgebot/2026-10-29T00:00:00.000Z

The Reinheitsgebot: Duke Wilhelm IV's 1516 decree that beer be brewed from barley, hops and water, its two versions today, and why a 1918 politician gave it its name.

Trappist beer: what the hexagon on the label meanshttps://beercorp.org/history/trappist-beer/2026-10-29T00:00:00.000Z

Trappist beer: the three rules behind the Authentic Trappist Product label, the ten abbeys that brew it, and how it differs from abbey beer.

The 9,000-year lease: how Arthur Guinness built a brewery on porterhttps://beercorp.org/stories/guinness-lease/2026-10-29T00:00:00.000Z

The Guinness story: a £45 lease signed in 1759, the switch from ale to porter in 1799, the harp label of 1862 and the nitrogen pint of 1959.

The IPA myths: who really sent pale ale to Indiahttps://beercorp.org/stories/ipa-myths/2026-10-29T00:00:00.000Z

India pale ale history: the beer nobody called IPA for 50 years, why George Hodgson did not invent it, and how a six-month voyage ripened it.

Lambic: the beer Brussels leaves to the airhttps://beercorp.org/stories/lambic-brussels-air/2026-10-29T00:00:00.000Z

Lambic: how brewers around Brussels let wild microbes ferment their beer, how blenders make gueuze, and the fight that won 'Oude Geuze' EU protection in 1997.