Beer

For the first time, Israeli-grown hops make it into commercial beer

White Rabbit and ISAAC breweries showcase beers made with locally grown Golan hops, highlighting Israel’s brewing capabilities.

The White Rabbit Brewery in Tel Aviv made the first beer brewed with Israeli grown hops. They were from Moshav Odem on the Golan Heights.
A can of beer, Estrella Damm

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New on the shelf

The brewer of four Shomron beers says that brewing is what cured him from post-trauma after many years of active combat duty.

New Israeli craft beers tell stories of war, recovery, and creativity


Seventh Tekoa Beer Festival garners a crowd of 3,000 in Gush Etzion

Israelis attended the event from all parts of the country in order to try beers from 15 local breweries.

 Seventh Tekoa Beer Festival garners a crowd of 3,000 in Gush Etzion.

Bands and beer abound in Jerusalem Beer Festival

The festival also boasts a slate of international beer companies including German brands like ‘Köstritzer’ and the Dutch ale company ‘Trappe la.’

 Beer fest Jerusalem 2022

Jerusalem Beer Festival (‘Ir Habira’) opens the capital’s summer season

“We wanted the Jerusalem Beer Festival to open the capital’s summer events season rather than close it,” said organizer Eli Giladi.

 Enjoying their suds at the 2021 Beer Festival.

Israel's best craft brewed beers for the summer

Here in Israel, our craft breweries have issued some new beers just in time for the summer days.

 Beers of summer

Once upon a Jerusalem winter's night - short story

The graffiti inside the tunnel is third-rate, the work of an angry teenager. The air hangs heavy with the stench of urine and stale weed.

 Rain falls along Jaffa Road in downtown Jerusalem on January 19.

Reviewing the barrel-aged beers from Israeli craft breweries

Since most of the beers chosen for maturing are high alcohol by volume anyway, the barrel aging makes them darker, even more flavorful and often more boozy.

 THE THREE beers aged for five months in barrels that once held Glenfiddich Single Malt Scotch Whisky: Imperial Porter by Negev, Strong Scotch Ale by Malka, and American Barley Wine by Herzl.

Party like it's the Bronze Age: ancient beer straws found in Northern Caucasus

Ancient ornate tubes may have been used for communal beer drinking in a funerary rite.

 Reconstructed use of the drinking tubes from the Maikop kurgan.

New Gilo social pub looking to bring you home to cozy feel

Bottoms up!

 THE PUB in Gilo recently joined the growing roster of similar community-oriented leisure facilities around town.

Coca-Cola, Molson Coors to launch alcoholic drinks in US

Soft-drink makers, including Monster Beverage Corp and PepsiCo Inc, have been branching out to the alcohol space.

 Boxes of Coca-Cola are seen at a grocery store in Los Angeles, California US November 21, 2017

Russian researchers identify oldest surviving drinking straws - study

Originally discovered in 1897, the eight straws are more than 5,000 years old.

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