Beer Brewing In Europe Beer in Europe is still a serious traditional business. For thousands of years, Europe has been a leader in brewing this popular beverage. Many countries have developed their distinctive beers, some are like mythological Ambrosia. Maintaining the quality of centuries-old recipes, many brewers to realize that their strength and maintain the tradition over promoting innovation. Not to say there are no other brewers to try new flavors, but mostly they leave the newfangled take risks to Americans. How to fix and change, it is not broke? Contribute to the preservation of European beer culture, several countries, organizations such as the European Beer Consumers' Union (BEUC) creates. The association was founded in 1990 in Bruges three founding members of the Campaign for Real Ale in Britain, the target Beer Tasters of Belgium and a pint in the Netherlands. Sounds like a Monty Python Arabesque Union artificial names, but it is justified in twelve countries as members: the above three, plus Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and France. Their goal is simple: to secure the European beer culture, its traditions, beer brewers and the promotion of traditional beer and support the consumption of traditional beers, and represents the drink in a campaign of choice, quality and value. This is not the only professional-quality beer organization in Europe. Others are in the Guinness 1759 Society, the British Guild of Beer Writers, and the Brothers of beer. Continued production of traditional beers has added one innovation to traditional facade: beer tours. Beertrips.com founded in 1998, promotes many beer-tasting experiences in countries such as Belgium, France, Britain, Germany and Austria. If you are interested in experiencing German beers, for example, the 10-day tour of Munich and the Bavarian brewers Fruhlingsfest. A personal favorite is the Brewers and the distillery tour of Scotland. Check the website for more information. Every European country seems to focus on the type of beer. In Ireland, they continue to promote their stout beers. Stout is thick and heavy, and earthy, rich flavor. They sell lagers and beers, but the focus and specialization is beer than Guinness. Guinness brewery was purchased and opened in 1759 in Dublin, Ireland by Arthur Guinness. The original stout is strong and bitter taste. In Spain, lager is the most popular. Spanish lagers are in touch stronger than other countries' lager offerings. Two of their most popular beers Especial and Extra. Especial is a Pilsner beer, quite light in color and flavor, when the Extra is a pale lager. Unfortunately, until recently, the Netherlands had been a beer desert for decades. Their people are angry and sputtered increase their thirst, all to no avail lessons. Acting aside, it was tightly controlled regulations for beer brewers that depleted the country. Since Sweden joined the European Union in 1995, regulations have grown more generous, the country has changed himself into the desert vibrant and diverse beer culture. Swedish industrial imports from many other countries, this has led to seek their own beer identity. Better beer identity than to find a lot of things to try to see what works for people of the country? The Netherlands, the industry continues to produce their own phylum of beer: Bierbok. Good version of the type of beer is difficult to produce. Bock is 16 century beer from Bavaria, which has suffered and abraded. It is a dark color (red-brown or black), a sweet mixture of language bittersweet flavors such as toffee, raisins, licorice, coffee and chocolate. These are not the ingredients, but tastes like. It is a strong alcoholic beer with an alcohol content of 6.5% to 8%. When used in beer, history and tradition are not necessarily dusty, boring or dry like old history books and documents. Thousands of years ago, a beer product development, it was new and ever-changing. Beer drinking traditions are of exceptional taste and interest, and evolved over the centuries, not even history and tradition.