I got a last minute request to paint a mural at an old brewery here in Belgium. This post will be updated once in a while so you can follow the process. Are you ready?

A newly discovered brewery from 3000 BCE—the world's oldest known facility of its kind—could produce enough beer to serve an entire modern-day stadium.

As proprietary hops from the Pacific Northwest have dominated the Canadian beer market, some farmers in Canada’s biggest hop growing provinces are getting out of growing the product all together.

Pilsner yeast, the well-known micro-organism that brewers use every year to make hundreds of billions of litres of pilsner and other lagers, came into being 500 years ago through an accidental encounter between two species of yeast. The yeast strains now used to brew pilsner can all be traced back to that time. This is the conclusion reached by TU Delft researchers based on extensive DNA analysis.

The Wari empire, an ancient Peruvian civilization that predated the Inca, made advances in agriculture, art, architecture, and warfare. They also drank a ton of beer.

Ancient history and modern craft brews collided in a resurrection story more delicious than any monster-mummy tale. Microbiologists with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem led a very drinkable research study that involved resurrecting 5,000-year-old yeast culled from pottery shards that were used as beer and mead jugs during the time of the pharaohs in Egypt. The vessels came from four different archaeological sites in Israel.

When the people of the Wari Empire (predecessors of the Inca) abandoned the southern Andes around 1100 CE, they made sure nobody else could enjoy their former home by destroyed the brewery that, for 400 years, had provided for lavish festivals held at the provincial center of Cerro Baúl. "They intentionally and deliberately destroyed the site so that it couldn't be used by successor societies when they left," Field Museum Associate Curator & Professor of Anthropology Ryan Williams told Ars Technica.

If you’re one of the people who, like Kylie Jenner, prefers Lucky Charms with the marshmallows only, then we’ve got a beer for you. Smartmouth Brewing Co., a brewery in Norfolk, Virginia known for its wild flavor creations, is releasing a Lucky Charms flavored IPA beer—and apparently it’s “magically ridiculous.”

For many beer aficionados “tastes like warm piss” is perhaps the most withering insult one can hurl in the general direction of a given beer. While you wouldn’t begrudge a member of the public making such a claim about a particular beer, you’d think brewers themselves would have a little more decorum.

First developed by Canada’s indigenous peoples, spruce beer was commonly used to prevent scurvy, even by French navigator Jacques Cartier. Today, it continues to have a following.

This year’s Canadian Brewing Awards are being held in Halifax, and brewers from across the country are showing off their finest beers. But much of the discussion at this year’s conference surrounds a beer that doesn’t actually exist yet.

The unique role of the temperance movement in US history might explain why, when it comes to Americans' tastes, bland beer is still king.

Thanks to the rise in popularity of craft brewing and local wineries, more warehouses than ever before are getting into the wine and alcohol storage game.

Corporate goliaths are taking over the U.S. economy. Yet small breweries are thriving. Why?

Researchers brewed 150 beers to determine if barley left a distinct taste.

It takes some practice, but keeps these tips in mind so you can create an IPA to rival the very best.

Texas craft breweries are calling House Bill 3287, which just became law after sailing through the Legislature, a “disincentive for growth.” The bill and its impact are complicated, but it all boils down to just how successful breweries can become. “There’s no other industry in the United States and in Texas where a law like this is on the books,” says Justin Engle, owner of two-year-old Town in City Brewing.

The brewery used 50,000 liters of urine collected at the Roskilde Music Festival in 2015 to fertilize fields of malting barley to produce it. Using human waste as fertilizer on such a scale is a novelty, said Denmark's Agriculture and Food Council, which came up with the idea for what could be the ultimate sustainable hipster beer and has already named the concept "beercycling".

Welcome to Gateways To Drinkery, where The A.V. Club offers an entry-level course on our favorite libations, and some suggestions on where to start drinking them.Flanders redThe lowdown: Regarded as the most wine-like style of beer, this approachable Belgian is a great entryway into the world of sou

Sometimes it seems like everyone you know is making their own beer, doesn’t it? The rise in popularity of craft beers in America combined with the easy accessibility of brewing supplies and equipment, from those little plastic Mr. Beer kits all the way to industrial grade brewing tanks, means that anyone with an idea for Read the full article...