On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. This article is about the alcoholic drink. Beer beer can chicken rub brown sugar distributed in bottles and cans and is also commonly available on draught, particularly in pubs and bars.

Beer forms part of the culture of many nations and is associated with social traditions such as beer festivals, as well as a rich pub culture involving activities like pub crawling, pub quizzes and pub games. When beer is distilled, the resulting liquor is a form of whisky. In early forms of English, and in the Scandinavian languages, the usual word for beer was the word whose Modern English form is ale. In Old English and Old Norse, the beer-word did not denote a malted alcoholic drink like ale, but a sweet, potent drink made from honey and the juice of one or more fruits other than grapes, much less ubiquitous than ale, perhaps served in the kind of tiny drinking cups sometimes found in early medieval grave-goods: a drink more like mead or cider. Beer is one of the world’s oldest prepared alcoholic drinks.

Almost any substance containing sugar can naturally undergo alcoholic fermentation, and can thus be utilized in the brewing of beer. It is likely that many cultures, on observing that a sweet liquid could be obtained from a source of starch, independently invented beer. Bread and beer increased prosperity to a level that allowed time for development of other technologies and contributed to the building of civilizations. Beer was spread through Europe by Germanic and Celtic tribes as far back as 3000 BC, and it was mainly brewed on a domestic scale. The product that the early Europeans drank might not be recognised as beer by most people today. 21st century, according to which the only allowed ingredients of beer are water, hops, and barley-malt.