beer

Summary

beer ranks in the top 0.44% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,280 views/month, #340 of 77,819).^[1]

Key Facts

• beer is made of hops^[2].
• beer is a type of commodity^[3].
• beer is a type of malt beverage^[4].
• beer is a type of brew^[5].
• beer's Commons category is recorded as Beer^[6].
• beer's Unicode character is recorded as 🍺^[7].
• beer's Unicode character is recorded as 🍻^[8].
• beer comprises barley^[9].
• beer comprises hops^[10].
• beer comprises water^[11].
• beer comprises yeast^[12].
• beer began on 3500 BC^[13].
• beer's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Beer^[14].
• beer's Commons gallery is recorded as Beer^[15].
• beer's topic's main Wikimedia portal is recorded as Portal:Beer^[16].
• beer's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia^[17].
• beer's described by source is recorded as Pauly–Wissowa^[18].
• beer's described by source is recorded as Vlastenský slovník historický^[19].
• beer's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)^[20].
• beer's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[21].
• beer's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[22].
• beer's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[23].
• beer's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge^[24].
• beer's described by source is recorded as Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921^[25].
• beer's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox beer^[26].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include commodity^[3], malt beverage^[4], and brew^[5].

Use and Application

Components include barley^[9], a food ingredient^[27]; hops^[10], an edible flower^[28]; water^[11], a type of chemical entity^[29]; and yeast^[12], a food ingredient^[30].

Influence

Things named for beer include beer garden^[31]; International Beer Day^[32], a world day^[33], founded in 2007^[34]; and Beer Lovers Party^[35], a political party^[36], in Belarus^[37], founded in 1993^[38], headquartered in Minsk^[39].

Why It Matters

beer ranks in the top 0.44% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,280 views/month, #340 of 77,819).^[1] beer has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[40] beer is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[41]

Entities named for beer include beer garden^[31]; International Beer Day^[32], a world day^[33], founded in 2007^[34]; and Beer Lovers Party^[35], a political party^[36], in Belarus^[37], founded in 1993^[38], headquartered in Minsk^[39].