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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]
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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.
Kingfisher is an Indian beer brewed by United Breweries Group, Bangalore, India. The brand was first introduced in 1857 and then relaunched in 1978 by Vijay Mallya. With a market share of over 36% in India, it is also available in 52 other countries as of 2013. [1]
A Kingfisher beer advertisement in Goa. The Pegasus, which is the symbol of the United Breweries, first found its place as the Group logo in 1941. [citation needed] Then, the Helladic horse – associated with beer and nectar in Greek mythology – carried a beer cask between the wings, ostensibly because beer formed the core operations of the ...
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).
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".