Exploring Craft Beer and Homebrew in Peru (Country Code 51) and the USA (Country Code 1)
While in Peru this Summer I received, as a gift from my cousin, a mixed six-pack of beers by Cervecería Artesanal Ucuchá. Ucuchá is a craft brewery in the northern Andean town of Ucucha, a village of fewer than 100 inhabitants located at 8,860 feet above sea level in the department of Ancash, at the…
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…