The Amazing World of Mexican Beer

Mexico is home to some of the most interesting and unique beers in the world. For centuries before Europeans first settled into North America people in Mexico have been crafting and perfecting their own art of beer making. It has evolved over time, and today Mexican beer is one of the most popular types of foreign beers.

The first beers in Mexico were developed from the natives in the country. They were especially based from maize corn. This was one of the most common grains in the country and therefore became a useful crop to use in the production of beer.

One of the most unique features of beer in Mexico is that it contains unique ingredients in many cases. For instance, in the early days of Mexico natives brewed a type of beer known as pulque. This was a fermented drink that featured either honey water or aquamiel. This would become known as distilled tequila in today's society.

When more people from Europe began to settle in Mexico unique features of beer that are found in other countries would become more common in beer. A large number of the people who brewed beer at the time were of German descent. This helped to create a darker and a more malt based type of drink.

In the nineteenth century brewing companies in Mexico began to become more common. The advancement of industrialization was what definitely helped to get the brewing of beers in the country to become more popular. In fact, not long after this time Mexican beer became popular in the United States. During the Prohibition era of the 1920s in the United States Mexican beer was very popular to get through exports.

One of the best factors to see in Mexican beer is that of how lime and salt are used in many beers. A slight amount of salt and a lime wedge are generally served in Mexican beers. In fact, michelada is a beverage from Mexico that is popular. This is a light beer with lime juice and hot sauce.

Various different brands of beer from Mexico are now on sale. Corona, which is a light lager, is the most popular of these beers by far. Dos Equis, Tecate and Modelo Especial are among the other popular brands.

Mexican beer is indeed a unique type of beer. It has evolved well over the past few centuries and has many interesting features, including the lime and salt that are used often and the German influences of these drinks. In fact, the world of Mexican beer is continuing to grow as more breweries are being formed and more products are being exported outside of the country. It makes for a type of beer that is interesting and enjoyable.

A vintage mess: How Hardy Rodenstock became the most notorious name in wine (Independent)

Driving down from Munich in February 2006, I passed through the Bavarian Alps to Kitzbühel, the Austrian ski village popular with the German-speaking jet set. I was hoping to meet Hardy Rodenstock, who would shortly make headlines as the alleged mastermind of the biggest con in modern wine history. Rodenstock, who keeps an apartment in Kitzbühel with his wife Helga, was renowned among friends ...

After Dark: (The Capital)

Server Sean Kelley with the Rainbow Tower appetizer (crab, spicy tuna tartare and salmon poke) as the sun sets over the South River at Yellowfin. The current economic situation has everyone revisiting their budgets, trying to find ways to tighten up, cut back and slow down.

Home of the brewers: Forget Miller Park. Small-town Potosi is the place to go to get your fill of brewing history (Wisconsin State Journal)

POTOSI -- There may be no other place that pays better tribute to Wisconsin's beer industry than a room here on the second floor of the old Potosi Brewery. The memorabilia include signs, serving trays, lithographs and antique bottles. They come from places like Pabst and Schlitz in Milwaukee but also the smaller and lesser-known breweries that at one time dotted the state. They include Leidiger ...

The Wine Entrepreneurs (Fox News)

Forget stomping grapes. These savvy entrepreneurs have transformed their passion for wine into lucrative businesses.

Matteo Alessi: Grand designs on the tabletop (Independent)

He may be a leading figureat the cutting-edge Italian design behemoth that bears his name, but Matteo Alessi, great-grandson of the company's founder, Alberto, would rather spend his weekends pottering around B&Q than cruising the aisles of the Conran Shop.