Exploring Craft Beer and Homebrew in Peru (Country Code 51) and the USA (Country Code 1)
In mid-July, several weeks into my recent trip to Lima, my cousins and I went out for beers at Cervecería +51, a brewpub to which I had been to once before, but was new to them. +51 –a name taken from Peru’s telephone country prefix– is located on Jiron Huamachuco, in the district of Jesus…
On Tuesday, April 18th, workers at Peru’s largest industrial brewing consortium, the ABInbev-affiliated Unión de Cervecerías Peruanas Backus y Johnston S.A.A., walked off the job and on to the picket line. In September of 2021, the workers’ union –Sindicato Backus– and the company had successfully negotiated an agreement for a three-year contract. The agreement achieved…
A taproom that I got to visit while in Lima that was new to me was that of Cervecería del Valle Sagrado in Miraflores. The Cervecería del Valle Sagrado –usually just called Cervecería del Valle– is headquartered in the Urubamba Valley in Cusco, the Sacred Valley of the Incas. The Miraflores taproom –located at 508…
Plan B is a series of special-production “experimental craft beers” beers released once a year in large-format 750 ml bottles by Lima’s Cervecería Barbarian. In this post I review Barbarian’s 2020 release, Plan B 004. Plan B 004, released on 21 December 2020, is a Belgian-style tripel made by innoculating a batch of Barbarian’s Belga…