B.E.E.R.
Volume 647 Number 8091
Current issue
16 September 2026
Night in the City of Springs: beerhouses along the moat and Furong Street in Lixia District, Jinan. The cover story is a complete census of beer-serving venues across the district.
Cover story
Ground-truthing of 412 beer-serving venues across Lixia District, Jinan, shows that a one-kilometre buffer around the spring clusters holds three-fifths of supply. An old-town barbecue belt and an eastern craft-beer belt form a stable dual core.
Bochun Zhang, Shuyao Lin et al. · pp. 221–234
Research
- ArticleActivation energies of hop α-acid thermal isomerization constrain transferable prediction of bitterness units
Yu'an Han, Elise Moreau et al. · 235–243
- ArticleMineralization of North China groundwater constrains the reproducibility of Pilsner style
Jiashu Shen, Pavel Novák, Qinghe Lü · 244–251
- ArticleEcological succession of Saccharomyces and lactic acid bacteria in open fermentation follows a predictable pH trajectory
Jibai Fang, R. J. Bokulich, Wei Song · 252–260
- ArticleSensory compensation in low-alcohol beer: dose responses of esters and hop oils
Nanxing Pei, Ingrid Berg, Muzhi Zhou · 261–268
- ArticleVulnerability of the global hop supply chain to heatwaves is amplified by producing-region concentration
Wangshu He, Clara Hofmann, Qianli Ma · 269–277
- LetterMetabolic engineering of diacetyl shortens industrial lager maturation to four days
Yu Qian, Beichen Zheng, Lena Vogt · 278–281
- ArticleMigration of microplastics from can linings into beer is accelerated by pasteurization
Qingyue Wu, Xia Lin, D. M. Mitrano · 282–289
- ArticleMalt-fermentation residues in Neolithic ceramic vessels from the lower Yellow River
Shuchi Liang, Qiaomei Fu, Cen Gao · 290–297
- LetterA barley HvMYB10 allele sets the roast-aroma intensity of ale malt
Tai Yin, Robbie Waugh · 298–301
- ReviewThe craft taproom as a third place: a comparative ethnography of Asian cities
Guyan Chen, Ken Sato · 211–220
News & Comment
- NewsBaotuquan draught sells about 100 tonnes a day — half of Jinan’s craft market
Jianshan Wu · 14 September 2026
- News FeatureUnder the spring monument, a festival that stitches old town to craft beer
Ke Lin · 12 September 2026
- NewsQilu’s Sino-German beer centre: a city’s school of brewing
Mai Zhao · 11 September 2026
- News FeatureCan spring water become a geographical indication for brewing?
Jiashu Shen · 10 September 2026
- EditorialTreat the beerhouse as an urban sensor
The Editors · 16 September 2026
- Books & ArtsBooks: a new gazetteer that writes malt into North China archaeology
Shuchi Liang · 9 September 2026