Are you one of those people who enjoy organizing meeting with friends and family at home, but always doubt about the right amount of wine you need to buy? It might help you to know that the international standards are 6 glasses of wine per bottle. But you must consider some specificities in order to please all your guests.

Over generations, the beer has become a major beverage in the United States. Just as wine became a tradition in warm areas where the vines grow, beer became very important in the cold region where cereals grow.

Beer is the favorite drink for many people when they want to cool off in hot conditions. In his study "Suitability of beer in the athlete’s metabolic recovery", Professor Manuel Castillo Garzón of the University of Granada confirms that this delicious drink has moisturizing properties and is widely used to quench thirst.

Beer is one of the most storied alcoholic beverages worldwide, and is traditionally is elaborated from barley (or other grain), water, yeast and hops, although sometimes we can find varieties which, prior to fermentation, they add other products, such as fruits, syrups or juices, and even hops is replaced by other herbs or spices, which give their distinctive aroma and flavor to the resulting product. 

Prevent pneumonia and bronchitis is possible and the best is the remedy. Now we have a compelling reason to drink beer as its consumption provides a very effective anti-virus protection. The most interesting thing is that benefits accrue if the consumer is a young person, as declared by a team of researchers from the Japanese University of Sapporo.

Stricter Parents must change their mindset and start considering the issue from a different point of view. Since now on, when kids escape with friends to the park or the square to hang out together with a few cans of beer, we will have to consider it almost as a preventive treatment. It only remains to claim the necessary moderation when drinking, of course.

World leaders are human. They have a favorite football team, movie, meal and even a favorite drink. Psychologists can probably get a lot from the information I will share with you in this post and they will for sure attribute all kinds of personality traits to each of these powerful leaders, based on the contents of their glass. Is it true that all beer or whisky drinkers have something in common?

Well, in the first assault we have Barack Obama and Angela Merkel. If this unrivaled couple gather together a holiday on a terrace by the sea on a sunny afternoon (we will give a bucolic touch to the matter), they both would ask for beer.

The wheat beer is unique since it is made partly with this cereal, in addition to the classic barley, basic ingredient of all beers. The proportion of wheat used can be very different, depending on the variety, and can range from 25 to 70%. Normally, all of them are usually served at low temperature (about 4 °) and in large and elongated glasses.

The presence of this grain gives to the resulting beverage different qualities from those of other beers, especially a characteristic aroma of freshly baked bread, a somewhat fruity taste, spicy notes and also smoothness due to its lower alcohol content-making it an ideal accompaniment for short or medium maturation cheeses, seafood, fish, chicken and overall dishes with not very strong taste. They usually also have a pale color, a hazy appearance, little bitterness, high carbonation and a dense and durable foam, although there are variations depending on its origin. Basically we find the following varieties:

There are many beer families, prominent in different countries. Today we present the lambic beer, elaborated in Belgium, whose main characteristic is that its manufacturing process is through spontaneous fermentation.

This set them apart from other styles of beer, with no addition of yeast but elaborating them from yeast that come from nature and the environment in their region. Thus, in the same manner as in the case of wine, they are left to stand for some years in barrels and mixed with spices or fruits to obtain the desired aroma and taste.

Ale, Lager, Trappist, Golden Beer....there is a large number of beers but without any doubt the most popular and polifacetic one is the so called "Blonde" beer, or Lager beer. In the morning, during lunch, or on nights out with friends, we can find this type of beer everywhere and at any time.

The success of the "blondes" is so big that everyone has a famous brand, there are people that don't even drink it if it's not their favourite beer.

So what is the secret of their success? How is blonde beer produced? What is the difference between some brands and others?

Beer is one of the most versatile drinks. It always tastes the same (it doesn't depend from vintage years as the wine) and you can find it everywhere. It will survive the end of the world as well.

 But how can one decide which is the best beer? Critics and beer lovers do not always agree but according to objective facts, the best thing to do is to look at the ranking of the most sold beers.

 Yesterday we started with the ranking of the 10 most sold beers worldwide and today we continue with the 4 most sold beers worldwide. Here they are:

4. Coronita: The position 4, which leaves it out of the podium, goes to this mexican beer. Corona, the brand with 30,4 barrels sold in 2011 increases its position on the international market with a new add campaign, started this year and an association that will permit the growth of its presence in Mexico.