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YI about historical brewing purity laws..

The Renaissance
The production of beer was regulated and taxed in France: a Paris brewing charter came into law in 1489, with the term « beer » being specifically used. Beer could only be produced by brew masters using the following ingredients: grain, water and hops.

BREWERY LA PARISIENNE | History of beer in France The first known writings about beer go back more than 5 000 years BC, originating in Mesopotamia. We know that beer arrived in Europe in 5 000 – 4 800 BC, following two geographical currents: along the Danube (Eastern Europe) and along the Mediterranean coast (Southern France).

With the burst of tourism from beer drinking tourists flooding the streets of Cuba, Cubans are finding that they are running a shortage of their ales and lagers.

As American craft breweries revive historic Cubans lagers, how many brewer entrepreneurs will turn their eyes to Cuba's mainland?


http://wsvn.com/news/local/wynwood-brewery-brings-back-iconic-cuban-beer/

Wynwood brewery brings back iconic Cuban beer MIAMI (WSVN) - A South Florida beer company is bringing back an iconic Cuban beer. Concrete Beach Brewery in Wynwood is celebrating their re-release ofRead More

Anheuser-Busch InBev to acquire Italy's Birra del Borgo (Press Release) ROME, Italy—Birra del Borgo is happy to announce that it has decided to partner with Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev). The partnership will give Birra del Borgo, one of the leading...

Collaborations can come from all sorts of inspirations.
NC breweries stand up against a resent passed state bill.
Cheers to the NC breweries.

https://www.queerty.com/30-breweries-in-north-carolina-launch-special-beer-to-support-lgbt-nonprofits-20160415

30 Breweries In North Carolina Launch Special Beer To Support LGBT Nonprofits Gay-friendly North Carolina citizens will soon have a reason to drink up for a good cause! North Carolina's notorious anti-LGBT House Bill 2 seems to be creating more enemies by the day, and now 30 local breweries are teaming up to fight it. ...

Stand Strong Belgium! We stand with you!

According to CNN Denver CO is the best beer town in the US.

"Since 2011, more than 100 new breweries have opened in Colorado and there are more than 100,000 homebrewers in Colorado, according to the Brewer's Association."

The city has grown to support this breweries and for their work with each other, hosting CollaborationFest beer festival in Denver for the second year. Where breweries share "brewing experience and technique to join the perfect ingredients"

March 19th is the CollaborationFest, though tickets are sold out without surprise. Next years festival should be a must for brewers and beer mavens alike.


Denver, Colorado Colorado Beer
http://www.collaborationfest.com/visitdenver/

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/06/travel/denver-beer-town/index.html

9 reasons Denver is U.S. best beer town Best beer city in the United States?

This could be the fastest growing brewery in North America. Going from a nano brewery scale to 30bbl to a regional scale brewery in three years.
Customers line up outside of the brewery to buy their beer, located in the middle of a very low populated area of Massachusetts.

http://www.masslive.com/food/2016/03/tree_house_brewing_announces_p.html

Tree House Brewing announces plans for new brewery in Charlton, hopes to open by 2017 announced on its websiteTree House Brewing -- the highly acclaimed but hard-to-get-to, craft brewery out of Monson announced on its website Tuesday that it plans to expand operations to Charlton, where it plans to build a new brewery.

Over the past 15 years craft beer has grown its market share in the beer market annually as macro premium breweries have seen a loss market share.

In the same 15 years US consumers are overall buy less beer and are purchasing more liquor all the while the liquor production in the US has sky rocketed over 500%.

Beer drinkers are shifting more towards the large variety of craft beers and as a result the volume of consumption is declining. While the popularity of TV shows glamorizing liquor has inspired consumers to buy more distilled spirits.

The beer industry should not be threatened by the influx of distilleries and liquor consumption. Though brewers future sales projections may have to incorporate a larger artisan beer,wine and spirits market share view to stay on mark to consumers purchasing trends.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/17/less-beer-more-bourbon-how-the-american-buzz-is-evolving/

The Mad Men era of drinking is upon us Don Draper would approve

Its sort of illegal?
The economy of beer trade on Facebook.

'' It's off the back of the very popular Perth Beer Economy group, where one can trade a six-pack for say an electric fan, or get your trees pruned for the cost of a bottle of whisky.''

Goods and services traded for beer on Facebook across multiple different countries with governments shutting down and fining some organizations.


http://mashable.com/2016/02/08/beer-economies-on-facebook/

The Facebook Beer Economy is all the rage in Australia, but is it legal? The beer economy has become an Australian phenomenon, with Facebook groups trading booze for goods and services.