History
1842: how Plzeň gave the world golden lager
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.
History
How beer was made and drunk through the ages.
HistoryThe Reinheitsgebot: Bavaria's beer law of 1516
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.
HistoryTrappist beer: what the hexagon on the label means
Trappist beer: the three rules behind the Authentic Trappist Product label, the ten abbeys that brew it, and how it differs from abbey beer.