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Breweries

Sbirro Cheese

Italy's first beer cheese gets coated in spent brewing grains and soaked in lager.

Longyearbyen, Norway

Svalbard Bryggeri

The world's northernmost brewery uses water from a 2,000-year-old glacier to create its beer.

Seaweed Ale

The ocean-scented brew pays homage to an old Scottish style.

A home-brewed batch of gruit, with its ingredients.

Gruit Ale

Brewers are replacing hops with sweet, aromatic herbs to resurrect this extinct beer.

The original Southwold Jack in St Edmunds Church.

Southwold, England

Southwold Jack

Keep a lookout for replicas of this wooden soldier hiding in plain sight all around town.

Zoiglbier

In medieval Germany, drinkers followed a star to local lager.

H.L. Mencken drinks his first swig of legal beer at Baltimore's Rennert Hotel on April 7, 1933.

The Day Americans Drank Breweries Dry

Eight months before Prohibition officially ended, the country celebrated "New Beer's Eve."

Daniel Crown April 6, 2018

Atrapaniebla, with the camanchaca rolling in behind it.

Fog Beer at Atrapaniebla Brewery

In the Atacama Desert, brewers trap fog moisture to make crisp ales.

Before the Industrial Revolution, beer tasted decidedly smoky.

Why All Beer Once Tasted Like Smoke

Those were the days.

Jim Clarke January 15, 2018

Berliner Weisse

Pink or green syrup turns a historic German ale into a tart, sweet delight.

A medieval illumination showing a monk tasting wine or beer, from <em>Li livres dou santé</em>, late 13th century.

When a City and a Bishop Went to War Over Beer

The 1380 Wrocław Beer War was a medieval Bohemian battle royale.

Vittoria Traverso December 1, 2017

The entrance to Sarajevska Pivara, pictured in 2012.

The Bosnian Brewery That Saved a City Under Siege

The springs of Sarajevska Pivara became a sole water source for many Sarajevans.

Stacey McKenna November 28, 2017

One of Frank Leslie's damning illustrations, depicting the view of the 16th Street cow stable yard.

The 19th-Century Swill Milk Scandal That Poisoned Infants With Whiskey Runoff

Vendors hawked the swill as "Pure Country Milk."

Tyler Moss November 27, 2017

Spiderwebs help catch pesky fruit flies.

31 days of halloween

The Heritage Beer Brewed With Some Help From Spiders

When fruit flies love your beer, you don't mind a few webs in the brewery.

Anne Ewbank October 31, 2017

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Old Adam Scheidt Plant

This forgotten building was one of the few Philadelphia-area breweries to survive Prohibition.

Abensberg, Germany

Kuchlbauer Tower

A whimsical art tower at a Bavarian brewery includes a grotto for its mythical beer-brewing dwarves.

Halve Maan beer pipeline.

Bruges, Belgium

Halve Maan Brewery Beer Pipeline

A beer pipeline runs beneath Bruges.

The two-headed gator statue.

Two-Headed Gator of Seminole Heights

"Bite or Smite" became the unlikely mascot of a Tampa suburb.