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Summer is just ending, but there's still time to crack open a Pilsner. But just how did it become the most popular style in the world?

Pilsner is the beer that took over the planet. Its light, crisp, clear taste, with an earthy hint of Saaz hops, has become the most common style of beer worldwide. And on a hot summer’s day, nothing on Earth beats a world-class Pilsner. Pilsner traditionally comes from the town of Pilsen, located in what is in the Bohemia region of the Czech Republic, an area renowned for its brewing quality since the late 1200s. Like Burton- up-Trent, it was the quality of water that initially made it such a great place for brewing, although it wasn’t until the 18th century that brewers began to record the use of bottom-fermenting yeasts – one of the two defining factors of a lager. The other is that it has been ‘lagered’, which literally means ‘cold-stored’, and refers to a method of making beer rather than a specific style. It was on October

There’s been an abundance of beautiful beer books recently. Here’s some of our favourites, plus a classic.

Tasting beer is a very personal experience – we’re all different after all – but here at Beer Hawk we have our opinions. Here’s some of our favourite beers right now...

Here at Beer Hawk, we drink a LOT of British Beers.

And for your benefit, we've narrowed down our 11 Best New British Beers! Ooooh, you lucky lot!

I am a cult beer.

I am a beer you will scrape and save and queue and turn blue for; I am a beer for which anticipation, impatience, hysteria and fear mix and match within the soul when thought of. I am a beer you will swoon over, fall in love with and give out signals to the universe that this is why you drink beer. 

Belgium is the fatherland of quality beer-brewing. The country has a huge variety of beer styles, from well-established pale ales, saisons, tripels and dubbels to the more unusual Flemish sours, lambics and gueuzes. It is also, of course, the spiritual home of Trappist beer, claiming six of the eleven breweries in the world where Trappist monks oversee the beer making (and usually cheese too) to support the charitable works of their monastery.

There’s never been a better time to drink British beer.

Adrian Tierney-Jones talks to the key players in the new wave of the new wave.

Now is the time of our content when it comes to the British beer scene. Whether it’s a deep and soul-devouring hop narcissistic IPA, a porter or stout whose darkness the truly devout can get lost in, or a ringing, chiming, zinging, thrilling sour, we are living through perhaps the most exciting time for drinking beer since the end of the 19th century (and don’t let any self-appointed beer historian tell you otherwise).

Brewdog's founders James Watt & Martin Dickie on the future of craft beer and their all-time picks

What drives the beer world’s most important ambassadors? Hoptical met with Steve Hindy, president of Brooklyn Brewery, one of the best and most influential breweries in the world

That Germany is a great beer country is indisputable. This is the country of Pilsners and Kellerbiers, Kolschs and Weissebiers. It’s where beer is served in foaming steins at tables of thirsty drinkers. The cornerstone of brewing is the Reinheitsgebot, a Purity law that celebrates its 500th birthday in 2016. It dictated that only water, barley and hops could be used - yeast was added when we knew what it was. But far from being restrictive, the variety of German beers is astonishing and occasionally bizarre. Here are the most important...

It’s the big one - the competition that every brewer of real ale wants to win. Every year at CAMRA’s Great British Beer Festival, the Champion Bottled Beer of Britain is announced.