Exploring Craft Beer and Homebrew in Peru (Country Code 51) and the USA (Country Code 1)
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…
BELGIAN AND FRENCH BEERs Gold: Bardock – Belgian-Style Strong Ale from Cervecería Bardock Beer Company Silver: Limamanta Belgian Blond – Belgian-Style Blonde Ale from Cervecería Limamanta Bronze: Bicentenario – Belgian-Style Tripel from Cervecería Volcánica PALE ALE AND GOLDEN ALE Gold: Quinua – American-Style Cream Ale from Cervecería Cumbres Silver: Kontiki – American-Style Pale Ale from…
In the predawn hours of Tuesday, the union representing the workers of Peru’s Backus & Johnston S.A. brewing corporation, the Sindicato Nacional de Obreros de Unión de Cervercerías Peruanas de Backus y Johnston S.A., reached an agreement with the company after seventeen hours of negotiations. The agreement came about a mere hour or so from…
On September 16th the union representing the workers of Peru’s Backus & Johnston family of breweries announced that they are going on strike. The union, the Sindicato Nacional de Obreros de Unión de Cervercerías Peruanas de Backus y Johnston S.A., or Sindicato Backus, announced that as of 4:30 pm on the 10th of September, negotiations…