beer-lore

alternative beerlore · alternative beer lore

1. uncountableThe knowledge, study, history, or science of beer or beermaking; brewology.

   Beerlore indeed gave way to druglore, and student attitudes and values shifted as Greek life waned.

   1986, Richard Mercer Dorson, Handbook of American Folklore

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   Delving still earlier into the beer-lore of Germany we find that Tacitus, the Roman historian, in his Treatise on the Situation, Manners, and Inhabitants of Germany makes special reference to the beer made in the first century.

   1908, Edward Randolph Emerson, Beverages, past and present

   Gerry Lampert and Gerald Donaldson A full-bodied flow of light and lively photos, cool facts and smooth satisfying fables - a first class brouhaha of Canadian beer-lore through the ages.

   1975, Saturday Night

   There is considerable beer lore about the correct way to pour beer from bottle to glass, and this lore arose so that we can pour out a glass of beer with just the right amount of froth on the top.

   2009, Mark Denny, Froth!: The Science of Beer