Exploring Craft Beer and Homebrew in Peru (Country Code 51) and the USA (Country Code 1)
Early this morning, Lima’s Barranco Beer Company abruptly announced via its Instagram account that it will be closing its doors after this weekend. No explanation was given. After ten years in business, having survived the pandemic shut-down, Barranco Beer looked to be a steady feature of the Lima, and Peruvian, craft beer scene. Barranco Beer…
I recently came across these images of the old Backus & Johnston brewery in Lima. The Backus and Johnston brewery and ice manufacturing plant was founded in 1879 by the Americans Jacob Backus and John Howard Johnston in Lima’s Rímac District. In 1889, they incorporated “The Backus and Johnston’s Brewery Company Ltd” in London in…
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…