Beer in Bulgaria, the Glossary
The modern history of beer in Bulgaria (пиво, pivo or бира, bira) dates back to the 19th century, when it was introduced to the country by foreigners (from Austria-Hungary, France and Switzerland) shortly before the Liberation of Bulgaria.[1]
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68 relations: Amstel, Ariana (beer), Astika Brewery, Austria, Austria-Hungary, Āstika and nāstika, Bansko, Barley, Beck's Brewery, Beer, Beer bottle, Beer festival, Blagoevgrad, Bolyarka, Britos, Bulgaria, Bulgarian wine, Burgas, Carlsberg Group, Czechs, Eastern Bloc, Eastern Europe, Fermentation in food processing, France, Gabrovo, German-speaking Switzerland, Gorna Oryahovitsa, Harvest, Haskovo, Heineken, Hops, Hungarian Revolution of 1848, Hungarians, Kamenitza, Lajos Kossuth, Ledenika, Liberation of Bulgaria, List of countries by beer consumption per capita, Litre, Lom, Bulgaria, Mezdra, Middle class, Molson Coors, Pale lager, Pirinsko Pivo, Pleven, Plovdiv, Polyethylene terephthalate, Rakia, Ruse, Bulgaria, ... Expand index (18 more) »
Amstel
The Amstel is a river in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands.
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Ariana (beer)
Ariana is a Bulgarian beer brand, produced by the Zagorka Brewery since 2004.
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Astika Brewery
Astika is a brewery making a blond pilsner with an alcohol content of 5% ABV in the city of Haskovo, in southern Bulgaria.
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Austria
Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps.
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Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Dual Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918.
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Āstika and nāstika
Āstika (Sanskrit: आस्तिक; IAST: Āstika) and Nāstika (Sanskrit: नास्तिक; IAST: Nāstika) are concepts that have been used to classify the schools of Indian philosophy by modern scholars, as well as some Hindu, Buddhist and Jain texts.
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Bansko
Bansko (Банско) is a town in southwestern Bulgaria, located in Blagoevgrad Oblast near the city of Razlog.
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Barley
Barley (Hordeum vulgare), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally.
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Beck's Brewery
Beck's Brewery, also known as Brauerei Beck & Co., is a brewery in the northern German city of Bremen.
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Beer
Beer is an alcoholic beverage produced by the brewing and fermentation of starches from cereal grains—most commonly malted barley, although wheat, maize (corn), rice, and oats are also used.
Beer bottle
A beer bottle is a bottle designed as a container for beer.
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Beer festival
A beer festival is an event at which a variety of beers are available for purchase.
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Blagoevgrad
Blagoevgrad (Благоевград) is а town in Southwestern Bulgaria, the administrative centre of Blagoevgrad Municipality and of Blagoevgrad Province.
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Bolyarka
Bolyarka is a Bulgarian beer brand (Болярка) from the city of Veliko Tarnovo.
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Britos
Britos is a surname.
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Bulgaria
Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located west of the Black Sea and south of the Danube river, Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north. It covers a territory of and is the 16th largest country in Europe.
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Bulgarian wine
Grape growing and wine production have a long history in Bulgaria, dating back to the times of the Thracians.
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Burgas
Burgas (Бургас), sometimes transliterated as Bourgas, is the second largest city on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast in the region of Northern Thrace and the fourth-largest city in Bulgaria after Sofia, Plovdiv, and Varna, with a population of 203,000 inhabitants, while 277,922 live in its urban area.
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Carlsberg Group
Carlsberg A/S is a Danish multinational brewer.
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Czechs
The Czechs (Češi,; singular Czech, masculine: Čech, singular feminine: Češka), or the Czech people (Český lid), are a West Slavic ethnic group and a nation native to the Czech Republic in Central Europe, who share a common ancestry, culture, history, and the Czech language.
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Eastern Bloc
The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc (Combloc), the Socialist Bloc, and the Soviet Bloc, was the unofficial coalition of communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America that were aligned with the Soviet Union and existed during the Cold War (1947–1991).
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Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is a subregion of the European continent.
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Fermentation in food processing
In food processing, fermentation is the conversion of carbohydrates to alcohol or organic acids using microorganisms—yeasts or bacteria—under anaerobic (oxygen-free) conditions.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
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Gabrovo
Gabrovo (Габрово) is a city in central northern Bulgaria, the administrative centre of Gabrovo Province.
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German-speaking Switzerland
The German-speaking part of Switzerland (Deutschschweiz, Suisse alémanique, Svizzera tedesca, Svizra tudestga) comprises about 65 percent of Switzerland (North Western Switzerland, Eastern Switzerland, Central Switzerland, most of the Swiss Plateau and the greater part of the Swiss Alps).
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Gorna Oryahovitsa
Gorna Oryahovitsa (Горна Оряховица) is a town in northern Bulgaria, situated in Veliko Tarnovo Province, from Veliko Tarnovo.
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Harvest
Harvesting is the process of collecting plants, animals, or fish (as well as fungi) as food, especially the process of gathering mature crops, and "the harvest" also refers to the collected crops.
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Haskovo
Haskovo (Хасково) is a city in the region of Northern Thrace in southern Bulgaria and the administrative centre of the Haskovo Province, not far from the borders with Greece and Turkey.
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Heineken
Heineken Lager Beer (Heineken Pilsener), or simply Heineken, is a Dutch pale lager beer with 5% alcohol by volume produced by the Dutch brewing company Heineken N.V. Heineken beer is sold in a green bottle with a red star.
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Hops
Hops are the flowers (also called seed cones or strobiles) of the hop plant Humulus lupulus, a member of the Cannabaceae family of flowering plants.
Hungarian Revolution of 1848
The Hungarian Revolution of 1848, also known in Hungary as Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence of 1848–1849 was one of many European Revolutions of 1848 and was closely linked to other revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas.
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Hungarians
Hungarians, also known as Magyars (magyarok), are a Central European nation and an ethnic group native to Hungary and historical Hungarian lands (i.e. belonging to the former Kingdom of Hungary) who share a common culture, history, ancestry, and language.
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Kamenitza
Kamenitza (Каменица) is one of the top-selling Bulgarian beer companies based in the city of Haskovo.
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Lajos Kossuth
Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva (udvardi és kossuthfalvi Kossuth Lajos, Ľudovít Košút, Louis Kossuth; 19 September 1802 – 20 March 1894) was a Hungarian nobleman, lawyer, journalist, politician, statesman and governor-president of the Kingdom of Hungary during the revolution of 1848–1849.
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Ledenika
Ledenika (Леденика, English: icy or glacial) is a cave in the Northwestern parts of the Balkan Mountains, 16 km away from the Bulgarian city of Vratsa.
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Liberation of Bulgaria
The Liberation of Bulgaria is the historical process as a result of the Bulgarian Revival.
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List of countries by beer consumption per capita
This is a list of countries ordered by annual per capita consumption of beer.
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Litre
The litre (British English spelling) or liter (American English spelling) (SI symbols L and l, other symbol used: ℓ) is a metric unit of volume. It is equal to 1 cubic decimetre (dm3), 1000 cubic centimetres (cm3) or 0.001 cubic metres (m3). A cubic decimetre (or litre) occupies a volume of (see figure) and is thus equal to one-thousandth of a cubic metre.
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Lom, Bulgaria
Lom (Лом) is a town in northwestern Bulgaria, part of Montana Province, situated on the right bank of the Danube, close to the estuary of the Lom River.
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Mezdra
Mezdra (Мездра) is a town in northwestern Bulgaria, part of Vratsa Province.
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Middle class
The middle class refers to a class of people in the middle of a social hierarchy, often defined by occupation, income, education, or social status.
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Molson Coors
Molson Coors is a Canadian-American multinational drink and brewing company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with main offices in Golden, Colorado, and Montreal, Quebec.
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Pale lager
Pale lager is a pale-to-golden lager beer with a well-attenuated body and a varying degree of noble hop bitterness.
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Pirinsko Pivo
Pirinsko Pivo is a brewery founded in 1969 in Blagoevgrad in SW Bulgaria.
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Pleven
Pleven (Плèвен) is the seventh most populous city in Bulgaria.
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Plovdiv
Plovdiv (Пловдив) is the second-largest city in Bulgaria, 93 miles southeast of the capital Sofia.
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Polyethylene terephthalate
Polyethylene terephthalate (or poly(ethylene terephthalate), PET, PETE, or the obsolete PETP or PET-P), is the most common thermoplastic polymer resin of the polyester family and is used in fibres for clothing, containers for liquids and foods, and thermoforming for manufacturing, and in combination with glass fibre for engineering resins.
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Rakia
Rakija, rakia, rachiu, rakı or rakiya, is the collective term for fruit spirits (or fruit brandy) popular in the Balkans.
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Ruse, Bulgaria
Ruse (also transliterated as Rousse, Russe; Русе) is the fifth largest city in Bulgaria.
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Sevlievo
Sevlievo (Севлиево) is a town in north-central Bulgaria, part of Gabrovo Province.
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Shopi
Shopi or Šopi (South Slavic: Шопи) is a regional term, used by a group of people in the Balkans.
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Shumen
Shumen (Шумен, also romanized as Shoumen or Šumen) is the tenth-largest city in Bulgaria and the administrative and economic capital of Shumen Province.
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Shumensko
Shumensko is a Bulgarian beer brand (Шуменско пиво) from the town of Shumen.
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Sofia
Sofia (Sofiya) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria.
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Stara Zagora
Stara Zagora (Стара Загора) is a city in Bulgaria, and the administrative capital of Stara Zagora Province.
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Staropramen Brewery
Staropramen Brewery (Pivovary Staropramen s.r.o.) in the Smíchov district of Prague is the second largest brewery in the Czech Republic.
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Stella Artois
Stella Artois is a pilsner beer, first brewed in 1926 by Brouwerij Artois in Leuven, Belgium.
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Stolichno
Stolichno is a Bulgarian bock beer (Столично пиво) produced by the Zagorka Brewery since 2004.
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Switzerland
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.
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Tuborg Brewery
Tuborg is a Danish brewing company founded in 1873 on a harbour in Hellerup, to the north of Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Varna, Bulgaria
Varna (Варна) is the third-largest city in Bulgaria and the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and in the Northern Bulgaria region.
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Veliko Tarnovo
Veliko Tarnovo (Veliko Tŭrnovo,; "Great Tarnovo") is a city in north central Bulgaria and the administrative centre of Veliko Tarnovo Province.
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Vidin
Vidin (Видин) is a port city on the southern bank of the Danube in north-western Bulgaria.
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Vitosha
Vitosha (Витоша), the ancient Scomius or Scombrus, is a mountain massif, on the outskirts of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Zagorka
Zagorka is a Bulgarian beer brand from the city of Stara Zagora.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_in_Bulgaria
Also known as Bulgarian beer, Drinking in Bulgaria, History of beer in Bulgaria.
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