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The most popular beers in India are strong beers. [1] Beer-like sura has been produced in India since the Vedic era (c. 1500–1200 BCE, Rig Veda), [2] rice beer has been produced by the native tribes since ancient times, [3] European beer imports to India from England started in 1716, introduced by the British raj. [4]
The temperance movement in India often led to the prohibition of alcohol in various states, as with Manipur. [5] In British India, many Indian temperance activists agitated for prohibition in the country. [6] Mahatma Gandhi was a champion of the temperance movement and viewed foreign rule as an obstacle to national prohibition. [7]
Alcohol is a subject in the State List under the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution of India. [10] [11] [12] Therefore, the laws governing alcohol vary from state to state. Liquor in India is generally sold at liquor stores, restaurants, hotels, bars, pubs, clubs and discos but not online.
Currently, alcohol prohibition is enforced in many Muslim majority countries, in parts of India, and in some Indigenous Australian communities and certain northern communities in the Canadian territories. [1] They can range from complete ban all the way to bans on sales during certain times. [2] Afghanistan [3]
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Old English: Beore 'beer'. In early forms of English and in the Scandinavian languages, the usual word for beer was the word whose Modern English form is ale. [1] The modern word beer comes into present-day English from Old English bēor, itself from Common Germanic, it is found throughout the West Germanic and North Germanic dialects (modern Dutch and German bier, Old Norse bjórr).
Evidence of fermentation and alcoholic beverages has been found in the Indus valley civilization during the Chalcolithic Period from 3000 BC to 2000 BC in India. [4] In Ancient India, the Vedas mention a beer-like drink called sura. [5] It was the favourite of the god Indra.
Lion beer, Asia's first beer brand produced at Kasauli Brewery since 1930, brewery was established by Edward Abraham Dyer, [8] father of Colonel Reginald Edward Harry Dyer "The Butcher of Jallianwala Bagh massacre".