Until Joseph Bramah patented the beer engine in 1785, beer was served directly from the barrel and carried to the customer.

In 1691, an article in the London Gazette mentioned John Lofting, who held a patent for a fire engine: " The said patentee has also projected a very useful engine for starting of beer, and other liquors which will draw from 20 to 30 barrels an hour, which are completely fixed with brass joints and screws at reasonable rates ".

The London Gazette of 17 March 1691 published a patent in favour of John Lofting for a fire engine, but remarked upon and recommended another invention of his, for a beer pump:

When the cask is stored in the cellar and served from the bar, as in most pubs, the beer line is screwed onto the tap and the beer is pulled through it by a beer engine.

These appear similar to keg taps ( indeed, many Scottish pubs serve keg beer through adapted tall founts ) rendered from brass but the beer was drawn from the barrel via air pressure generated by a water engine rather than by a pressurised artificial gas.

Some pubs still dispense cask beer using this method ( although the water engine will invariably have been replaced by an electric compressor ) but is increasingly rare due to the perception that hand-pumps are the ' correct ' means by which to serve real ale, and to the potential for confusion with keg ale, which is regarded as inferior by many beer drinkers.

Known colloquially as the " beer keg " or " kegger " manifold, the part was shaped like half of a beer barrel lying longitudinally atop the center of the V-shaped engine block.

They included: a beer engine ( 1797 ), a planing machine ( 1802 ), a paper-making machine ( 1805 ), a machine for automatically printing bank notes with sequential serial numbers ( 1806 ), and a fountain pen ( 1809 ).

But if the cask is in the cellar, the beer needs to travel via tubes, or beer lines, and be pumped up to the bar area, normally using a handpump also known as a ' beer engine '.

A beer engine, also known as a handpump, is used to siphon the beer from the cellar.

The beer engine is a, sometimes, airtight piston chamber ; pulling down on the handle raises the piston which drags up a half pint of beer.

He doesn't think that potting them from a deck chair on the south side of the house with a quart glass of beer for sustenance is entirely sporting.

For the hero of this work by John Osborne and Anthony Creighton is a chap embittered by more than the lack of beer during a jam session.

Two blocks west of the Old Town is the Kuchlbauer Brewery and beer garden featuring the Kuchlbauer Tower, a colorful and unconventional observation tower designed by Viennese architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser.

It is often stated that a unit of alcohol is supplied by a small glass of wine, half a pint of beer, or a single measure of spirits.

Though wine ( vino ) has traditionally been the most popular alcoholic beverage in Argentina, beer ( cerveza ; the Italian birra is frequently used ) in recent decades has competed with wine in popularity.

However, the presence of a vigorous population of Celtic lineage, principally of Irish origin, has supported the creation of other celebrations of beer, often for marketing purposes, such as Saint Patrick's Day ( Día de San Patricio ), patron of Ireland, which is celebrated with abundant libations.

* 1933 – Prohibition is repealed for beer of no more than 3. 2 % alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment.

At the same time, flavored malt beverages are marketed in traditional beer-type bottles and cans and distributed to the alcohol beverage market through beer and malt beverage wholesalers, and their alcohol content is similar to other malt beverages in the 4-6 % alcohol by volume range .</ p >

The monks who originally brewed doppelbock named their beer " Salvator " (" Savior "), which today is trademarked by Paulaner.

Eisbock is a traditional specialty beer of the Kulmbach district of Germany that is made by partially freezing a doppelbock and removing the water ice to concentrate the flavour and alcohol content, which ranges from 9 % to 13 % by volume.

In Brazil, Kaiser is one of the breweries that sells bock beer, called Kaiser Bock.

This beer is available only in the months of fall and winter ( September to April ).

Bock beer is produced in Mexico around Christmas season, under the Noche Buena label with 5. 9 % abv

Bock beer is produced and distributed under the Urbock label by Namibian Breweries.

Brewing is the production of beer through steeping a starch source ( commonly cereal grains ) in water and then fermenting with yeast.

The basic ingredients of beer are water ; a starch source, such as malted barley, which is able to be fermented ( converted into alcohol ); a brewer's yeast to produce the fermentation ; and a flavouring, such as hops.

The amount of each starch source in a beer recipe is collectively called the grain bill.

The amount of each starch source in a beer recipe is collectively called the grain bill.

The starch source in a beer provides the fermentable material and is a key determinant of the strength and flavour of the beer.

The most common starch source used in beer is malted grain.

Hops had been used for medicinal and food flavouring purposes since Roman times ; by the 7th century in Carolingian monasteries in what is now Germany, beer was being made with hops, though it isn't until the thirteenth century that widespread cultivation of hops for use in beer is recorded.

* Widget ( beer ), a device placed in cans and bottles of beer to aid in the generation of froth

Some manufacturers have tried to address this problem by producing a device which allows the beer to be poured from the bottom up.

In 1935, beer cans with flat tops were marketed, and a device to puncture the lids was needed.

Another motive for assigning the device such an ironic name could have been the fact beer was first canned ( for test marketing ) in 1933 — the same year Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Cullen-Harrison Bill.

The fermentation lock or airlock is a device used in beer brewing and wine making that allows carbon dioxide released by the beer to escape the fermenter, while not allowing air to enter the fermenter, thus avoiding oxidation.

And those potentially lip-slicing edges that come with puncturing a can with an unfit device also aren't an issue, since you slurp your beer from the main opening.

This device includes a CO2 evacuation step, increasing the shelf life of the beer compared to direct spigot filling.

" To further enhance their beers, Dogfish Head introduced a device in 2003 jokingly called Randall the Enamel Animal, an " organoleptic hop transducer module " which " Randallizes " a given beer by passing the beer through a large plastic tube filled with a flavor enhancer, often raw hops though adaptations with fruits and coffee beans, amongst others, have taken place.

Kegerator is a residential draft ( draught ) beer dispensing device.

The user is able to maintain a tapped keg in such a device for extended periods of time, usually a couple of months, without losing any quality in the taste of the beer.

The first patent was taken out for a reduction device for carbon dioxide in use to tap beer.