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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 346

beer

Undated photo of Tomer Nagar drinking beer. (Courtesy Nagar family)
January 4, 2024, 1:49 pm
Family of fallen Oct. 7 hero Tomer Nagar commissions line of beers in his honor
IDF soldier who singlehandedly fought back against rampaging terrorists at Kissufim base until his last bullet, saving others, is memorialized for his deep fondness for brews
By Stuart Winer
Performing at Apollonia Park during Sukkot 2023 (Courtesy Mano Grinspan)
September 29, 2023, 4:32 pm
Outside of the sukkah, festivals of every kind abound in Israel
An array of musical, theatrical, artistic, culinary and historical events livens up the country during Sukkot 5784
By Jessica Steinberg
Tasting the biblical-style beer produced from ancient yeast strains dormant for thousands of years. (Yaniv Berman/ Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority)
May 26, 2023, 3:08 pm
Brew your own ancient beer: Yeast from 3,000-year-old Philistine beer jug now on sale
Israeli multi-disciplinary research team’s first yeast strain available on preorder for December shipping; Israel Museum and Shikma Brewery launch limited edition commercial batch
By Melanie Lidman
Jesse Epstein (center), a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College, is the new owner of Shmaltz Brewing Company. (Courtesy of Jesse Epstein via JTA)
December 13, 2022, 10:30 am
In US, He’Brew-maker Shmaltz Brewing reboots with rabbi-to-be at helm
Jesse Epstein, 26, hopes to use popular drink as vehicle to promote Judaism, with some Talmudic inspiration for his planned range of brews
By Andrew Lapin
This grab from AFPTV footage shot on September 2, 2022 shows Madees Khoury, head of the Palestinian Taybeh brewery, speaking during an interview with AFP amid the annual Oktoberfest beer festival, east of the West Bank city of Ramallah. (Photo by AFP)
September 4, 2022, 2:40 am
First female Palestinian beer-maker brews success, despite multifaceted challenges
Madees Khoury now heads internationally-acclaimed Taybeh brewery, which is marking Oktoberfest; says Israel’s military rule in West Bank, male-dominant society make it doubly hard
By AFP and ToI Staff
Archaeologist Prof. Jennie Ebeling at the Jezreel Expedition. (Ashley Motes, courtesy of the Jezreel Expedition)
May 27, 2022, 1:24 pm
PODCAST: In ancient Israel, a woman’s place was in the home making beer
Through careful analysis of oven placement and grindstones, archaeologist Prof. Jennie Ebeling shows how women in antiquity had much more agency than previously thought
By ToI Staff
A view of the archaeological site at Tel Tsaf, in the Jordan Valley (Courtesy University of Haifa)
December 21, 2021, 2:25 pm
First evidence of social beer consumption found in 7,000-year-old Israeli town
Archaeologists say discovery at Tel Tsaf in the Jordan Valley is first known instance of alcohol being imbibed inside a community in the ancient Middle East
By ToI Staff
This undated image, courtesy of the Museum of the Natural History of Vienna, shows roughly 2,700-year-old-human excrement from the Hallstatt salt mines in which beans, millet and barley are clearly visible. (Museum of Natural History of Vienna/AFP)
October 14, 2021, 4:16 am
Ancient poop suggests blue cheese-beer combo has long been a favorite
Scientists make discovery by analyzing samples of human excrement found at heart of Hallstatt salt mine in the Austrian Alps
By Lucie AUBOURG
Illustrative: Wall Inscriptions of the Memnonium of Seti I, Abydos. (Brooklyn Museum Archives/Wikimedia)
February 14, 2021, 1:12 am
Egypt unearths world’s oldest-known beer factory
Brewery found in Abydos dates back over 5,000 years; drink was apparently used in sacrificial rites
By Samy Magdy
A digitized photo of what Barmon, a cooperative bar set up in a refitted bus, will look like if it opens as hoped in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood of Jerusalem in August 2020 (Courtesy Shomi Bar-Cohen)
July 16, 2020, 5:49 am
If you build a (cooperative) bar in a bus, the neighbors will come
A communal effort in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Armon Hanatziv raises money to refit a bus as a local hangout
By Jessica Steinberg
Illutrative: Belgian drinkers enjoying Ginger Tipple, a kosher for Passover beer. (Courtesy Ginger Tipple)
April 12, 2020, 1:27 pm
A hametz-free Passover doesn’t mean you have to give up beer
Lines of kosher for Passover beers, now available in Israel, offer brews that are free of barley and malt and rich with ginger or date honey
By Jessica Steinberg
Budweiser beer bottles. (Craig Barritt/Getty Images for New York/via JTA)
February 11, 2020, 3:43 pm
Belgian beer maker of Corona, Budweiser scouts for cybersecurity edge in Israel
AB InBev teams up with Israeli cybersecurity VC fund Team8 to identify and set up collaborations with local cybersecurity firms
By Shoshanna Solomon
Empty beer bottles stand in front of the hotel where the Shield and Sword festival took place in Ostritz, Germany, June 22, 2019. (Daniel Schäfer/picture alliance/ Getty Images via JTA)
June 27, 2019, 6:34 am
Germans protest neo-Nazi rock festival by buying up all the beer
‘We wanted to dry the Nazis out,’ says local activist George Salditt after they purchased all the beer in town
By JTA
The Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis, July 14, 2008. (AP /Jeff Roberson, File)
From the WebJune 13, 2019, 10:11 pm
World’s largest brewer opens Israeli cybersecurity unit
Reuters reports Anheuser-Busch InBev office in Tel Aviv to focus on analyzing threats as commercial cyber-attacks mount
Lion Black, left, and Shmuel Naky, right, pour beer and mead made with 3,000-year-old yeast that were brewed as part of an archaeological-microbiological study, on May 22, 2019. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)
May 22, 2019, 6:41 pm
It’s not what Goliath drank, but ancient yeast brews still bring giant flavor
‘Philistine’ beer made from 3,000-year-old strain found at Gath comes out fruity and tangy while mead, likely closer to its atavistic inspiration, begets a champagne-cider quaffer
By Judah Ari Gross
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