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  directopedia : Directory : Business : Food and Related Products : Beverages [2] : Beer
Beer is one of the oldest beverages humans have produced, dating back to at least the 5th millennium BC and recorded in the written history of Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.
Hopped beer was imported to England from the Netherlands as early as 1400 in Winchester, and hops were being planted on the island by 1428.
Wood-aged beers are any traditional or experimental beer that has been aged in a wooden barrel or have been in contact with wood (in the form of chips, cubes or "beans") for a period of time (Oak is the most common).
www.directopedia.org /directory/Business-Food_Related_Products/Beverages-Beer.shtml   (4317 words)

  
 Beer and nationality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Other remarkable brands are Stolichno (bock beer produced by Zagorka), Shumensko (both lager and red ale, produced in the city of Shumen), Burgasko (produced in the city of Burgas), MM (produced in the city of Varna), Pirinsko (brewed in the city of Blagoevgrad), and Plevensko (produced in the city of Pleven).
Drinking beer with salted boiled beans, edamame, is known as a favourite summer pastime for adults.
Beer is a historic traditions in Latvia and is known to have been made before the Northern Crusades in the thirteenth century.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beer_and_nationality   (2354 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Hungarian
Hungarian notation is a naming convention in computer programming, in which the name of an object indicates its type and intended use.
Therefore, Hungarian politics and culture of the interwar period were saturated with irredentism and revisionism (the restoration of 19th century "greater Hungary" by whatever means necessary).
Hungarian sovereign debt was upgraded in 2000 to the second-highest rating among all the Central European transition economies.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hungarian   (408 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Hungarian beer
Although Hungary is better known as a wine-producing country, beer has been made there for around a thousand years and the country has a significant history of commercial beer production.
This is usually explained by a legend about Austrians clinking their beer glasses when celebrating the execution of the 13 Hungarian Martyrs of Arad in 1849.
Beer was brewed in the works of the Stock Co., in the Haggenmacher factory a textile works was put into operation and Dreher dealt with producing malt, liquor and chocolate.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hungarian-beer   (712 words)

  
 European Pub and Beer Guides: Links
Beer travel, brewery and beer reviews, beer styles and articles about every aspect of beer from the world's leading writer on the subject.
Guide to beer festivals in part of Frankenland, the area with the world's largest concentration of breweries.
Beer labels from the DDR period from Thüringen.
www.xs4all.nl /~patto1ro/links.htm   (1397 words)

  
 Slovak Beer: Quality Amid Consolidation (Spectacular Slovakia travel guide)
Yet the seeming variety hides another reality: the Slovak beer industry is in an advanced phase of rapid consolidation, part of a global trend that's transforming the beer trade worldwide.
Unlike mass-market U.S. beer makers, which stretch out their barley with the addition of cheaper corn, Slovak producers use 100 percent barley, most of it grown and processed in Slovakia.
While U.S. beers tend to be lightly hopped - a cost-cutting measure that consumers have come to embrace - Slovak beers have the crisp, slightly bitter finish granted by a generous dose of hops.
www.spectacularslovakia.sk /ss2003/06_slovak_beer.html   (1271 words)

  
 Beer - Alternative medicine - Alternative medicine
Beer, generically, is an alcoholic beverage produced through the fermentation of sugars suspended in an aqueous medium, and which is not distillationdistilled after fermentation.
Beer is one of the oldest beverages human has produced, dating back to at least the 5th millennium BC and recorded in the written history of Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.
Because beer is composed mainly of water, the source of the water and its characteristics have an important effect on the character of the beer.
www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Beer   (3725 words)

  
 Hungarian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Magyar or Hungarian people, an ethnic group.
Hungarian notation, a method of naming program variables.
The Hungarian algorithm for the assignment problem, also known as Munkres' assignment algorithm
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hungarian   (112 words)

  
 Baltimore City Paper: NEWS Co-chair, Jones Falls Watershed Association   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
So Beer got busy, first convincing a wealthy neighbor to buy a community lawn mower, and then convincing the city to let him and a band of volunteers maintain the area.
Even with a sore hip that Beer attributes to age, he loves to ramble around the falls, which is home to kingfishers, herons, and hawks.
Beer talks of re-establishing ecosystems and reacquainting people with nature, but when pressed he gives a simpler motivation for his miracles.
www.citypaper.com /news/story.asp?id=3652   (588 words)

  
 Deciphering a Slovak Beer Label (Spectacular Slovakia travel guide)
Pre-fermented beer is called wort, and consists of crushed germinated barley (malt) steeped in water, with hops added.
Typically, beers of 10 degrees Plato are around 4 percent alcohol, while beers of 12 degrees Plato are around 5 percent alcohol.
But this varies from beer to beer - depending on how much of the sugar from the malt has been converted into alcohol in the fermentation process.
www.spectacularslovakia.sk /ss2003/06_deciphering.html   (412 words)

  
 The Budapest Sun Online - Story page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
HUNGARIAN breweries blame cheap foreign imports and what they termed "excessive" taxation at home for an 11% slump in beer sales last year, with the "big four" - Borsod, Brau Union, Dreher and Pécs Breweries seeing volumes drop from 7.3 million hectolitres in 2003 to 6.5 million in 2004.
While the majority of Hungarian drinkers still preferred bottled beer, sales of canned beer by association members themselves rose from 23% to 35% of the total.
In addition, Hungarian brewers have hit back with an advertising campaign stressing the quality of domestic brews, something, they hint, which is missing in the cheaper unbranded imports.
www.budapestsun.com /full_story.asp?ArticleId={02215CC28E8C45CBAF905FC02D70EA68}&From=Business   (403 words)

  
 Hungary Travel Guide
Hungarian (Magyar) is unrelated to any European language other than Finnish, Estonian, and the far north Sámi andmdash it belongs to the Finno-Ugric language group, so no cheating with high school Romance or Germanic languages here.
Hungarians are quite proud of their cuisine (Magyar konyha), and most of the time not without a reason.
Hungarian Beer is superb, among the best in the world.
www.imakoopedia.org /en/article/Hungary   (1949 words)

  
 Hungary - Travelgaido   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Hungarian (Magyar) is unrelated to any European language other than Finnish, Estonian, and the far north Sámi — it belongs to the Finno-Ugric language group, so no cheating with high school Romance or Germanic languages here.
On the plus side, Hungarian is written with the familiar Latin alphabet, with the addition of some accented characters (ŐőŰű, which are the same sound as ÖöÜü but longer, plus áéíóú, which are long vowels).
Budapest is not a problem, as there is a wide variety of restaurants to choose from, but in an ordinary Hungarian restaurant the non-meat mains on the menu are pretty much limited to rántott sajt (fried cheese) and gombafejek rántva (fried mushrooms).
travelgaido.com /en/Hungary.html   (1963 words)

  
 Encyclopedia article: Hungarian beer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
During the heyday of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (additional info and facts about Austro-Hungarian Empire) the Kőbánya district of Budapest became the centre of Hungary's brewing industry.
Brau Union Hungária Breweries is majority owned by Brau AG of Austria and has breweries in Sopron, Martfű and Komárom.
The Nagykanizsa Brewery produces beer under the brands of Kanizsai Világos, Kanizsai Kinizsi, Balatoni Világos and Paracelsus.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hu/hungarian_beer.htm   (295 words)

  
 Why I Consider Myself Hungarian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The last "Hungarian invasion" was in the 1980s, and it was the Rubik's Cube.
They can work together far better, unlike the Hungarians who are always trying to get a better slice of the pie for themselves than their neighbour.
Hungarian teamwork, outside of sports, is generally a foreign concept.
www.liberatedpaprikafront.com /zoltan/essays/02.html   (1843 words)

  
 A Thousand Years of Beer (Spectacular Slovakia travel guide)
Benedictine monks were great lovers of beer, and they imposed a malt levy on tenants who rented their land.
As in Belgium, clergymen sometimes produced beer themselves; in 1297, a fraternity of monks in the Spiš region gained the area's exclusive beer license.
Another great center of beer activity was in the northern mining regions - no great surprise, given that these areas had been colonized by Germans as early as the 12th century.
www.spectacularslovakia.sk /ss2003/06_thousand_years.html   (627 words)

  
 Wine Barrels: Beer-Wine
Hungarian Oak barrels share a similar flavoring with the traditional French Oak barrels.
These Hungarian oak barrels are the finest quality barrels with a medium toast, heavy construction.
The brass spigots have a tapered threaded shank and a lug on the handle that allows the valve to be padlocked closed.
www.beer-wine.com /wine-barrels.html   (512 words)

  
 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Beer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
While beer is defined as an alcoholic beverage, a drink originated in the Western world, which undergo a process to remove most of the alcohol, producing what is called low alcohol or non-alcoholic beer.
When the landlord feels the beer has settled, and he is ready to serve it, he will knock a soft spile into a bung hole on the side of the cask.
When the beer is judged to be ready, the landlord will replace the soft spile with a hard one (which doesn?t allow air in or gas out) and let the beer settle for 24 hours.
www.blinkbits.com /blinks/beer   (4612 words)

  
 Hungarian Beers, Wines and Spirits
Sadly, Hungarian beers have not really been able to break out of the domestic market.
This is not surprising given that its near neighbour is the Czech Republic, a country famed for its brewing prowess and superb beers.
Producing both vilagos and barna beers, the best are sold under their own label (világos, Pils and Bak barna) although Kőbányi világos is also very pleasant.
www.talkingcities.co.uk /budapest_pages/food_drink_wine.htm   (948 words)

  
 EUROPEAN BEER GUIDE INDEX - BEER AND BREWING STORIES HEALTH CUSTOMER SERVICE AND MORE - MISS BUDWEISER WATER RECORD ...
Beer travel, brewery and beer reviews, beer styles and articles about every aspect of beer from the world's leading writer on the subject.
Guide to beer festivals in part of Frankenland, the area with the world's largest concentration of breweries.
Beer labels from the DDR period from Thüringen.
www.budweiser-beer.net /european_beer_guide.htm   (1119 words)

  
 Hungarian beer - tScholars.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
During the heyday of the Austro-Hungarian Empire the Kőbánya district of Budapest became the centre of Hungary's brewing industry.
The Nagykanizsa Brewery (Nagykanizsai Sörgyár) produces beer under the brands of Kanizsai Világos, Kanizsai Kinizsi, Balatoni Világos and Paracelsus.
This beer- or brewery-related article is a stub.
www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Hungarian_beer   (418 words)

  
 This is a series of links to other beer pages
Homepage of Conrad Seidl, the formost Austrian beer writer.
Beer information about the Czech Republic, including a full list of the breweries.
Bractwo Piwne A Polish beer consumers' group, the latest associate member of the EBCU.
www.iwantadrink.com /directory/bartools/european-beer-guides.htm   (705 words)

  
 Beer & More!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Find a beer you would like to try and search for a watering hole that serves it near you.
If there is a beer you would like more information on or would like to see added please email us and we will get it researched as soon as possible.
Our new beer recipe section will soon be full of any recipe that uses beer as one of it's ingredients.
www.sendafriendabeer.com /beer/beer.asp   (178 words)

  
 KBS Collection: Borsori Sör   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Beer Name Means: "Borsod" is a region in Hungary, "sör" means beer.
From Levente B., _leva@usa.net It is the greatest Hungarian beer I am sure.
If I correlate the Borsodi with other hungarian beer my rate is 7,5.
tuoppi.oulu.fi /kbs-bin/readbeer?Nr=1437   (748 words)

  
 Michael Jackson's Beer Hunter - Looking for the King of Beers...
The fathers of modern lager beer, Gabriel Sedlmayr II and Anton Dreher Sr, are gaining new recognition - not in Germany or Austria, their respective birthplaces, but in Hungary, a country where brewing is less of a tradition than wine-making.
At first, Schmidt took his beer there to mature, just as some Munich brewers transported casks to nearby caves in the foothills of the Alps.
He was sometimes known as "The King of Beers" (sound familiar?), and had another brewery at Michelob (Michalovce), in Bohemia.
www.beerhunter.com /documents/19133-001566.html   (1576 words)

  
 Hungary Czech Hungary | A Good Beer Blog
My Hungarian is rather weak these days so I don't know that the claim to a style is a guarantee that that is the style you will get.
That is because to make a beer fl you have to basically burn the malt destroying much of the carbs.
I should say that because this is the best ordinary Hungarian beer I've heard of I always try to order it whenever I go to a bar (which is not often).
beerblog.genx40.com /archives/2004/november/czechczech   (914 words)

  
 Recipes - Hungarian Recipes
Established to preserve, exhibit, and cultivate Hungarian culture in one of the largest Hungarian communities in the United States. The Museum specializes in the collection of memorabilia from the community and valuable folk art treasures. (English/Hungarian)
Hungarian painter from Budapest,; exhibiting oils and pastels. In English and Hungarian.
One of the prime academic departments devoted to the study of the Hungarian language and of Hungarian culture outside Hungary.
www.recipesmenu.com /hungarianrecipes   (1794 words)

  
 The Great Slovak Beer Taste-Off (Spectacular Slovakia travel guide)
The panelists were instructed to rate each beer on a scale from one to 10, as well as to scribble descriptive comments.
Value-for-money enthusiasts should note that Stein tmavé was the cheapest dark beer we tasted, and Stein svetlé ranked among the cheapest light beers.
Specific gravity is the number that appears on Slovak beer labels beside a degrees or percent symbol.
www.spectacularslovakia.sk /ss2003/06_taste-off.html   (904 words)

  
 Central Europe Review - Hungary News Review
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told reporters that "the most important decision from this informal meeting is to establish a commission of experts to look at organised crime in the Visegrad Four".
Hungarian state railways MAV are likely to privatise a number of rail lines as a result of reforms of the company.
Shortly after a statement by the Hungarian Government that humanitarian supplies to Yugoslavia could resume on a case-by-case basis, Hungarian oil and gas company MOL issued a statement saying that natural gas transit supplies had started in accordance with an investigation by the United Nations Gas Committee.
www.ce-review.org /99/18/hungarynews18.html   (1594 words)

  
 Hungary travel guide - Wikitravel
Hungarians speak Hungarian (Magyar), a language remotely related to Finnish and Estonian and not at all related to any of its neighbors, much less English.
Hungarian beer is quite average compared to other Central European countries like Germany and the Czech Republic as it has long been a wine culture.
Hungarians tend to be rather pessimistic and believe that History was never on their side.
wikitravel.org /en/Hungary   (4529 words)

  
 Blogger: Email Post to a Friend   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Jan 18: "Yesterday we were invited to a Hungarian tradition of killing a pig and during the course of the day eating it.
For a sweet nibble a Hungarian donut was produced, but it was like strips of dough tied in a knot.
On the way out the hot showers were of volcanic water so I am sure we smelt well of sulphur...Walking round the town of Heviz we found a nice cafe-bar that had Hungarian Goulash on the menu, so we decided on the goulash soup and a Hungarian beer.
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