This special issue follows our conference, which was held in October 2021 and attended by beer historians and … sociologists from the U.S., Europe and Australia. By taking beer as a lens to approach questions of knowledge transfer and … circulation, we seek to refine our historical understanding of the global entanglements of the beer industry. This is all the more …

of this conflict. Excise taxes on beer consumption were the single largest income source in Holland, the leading province … of the Dutch Republic. Beer taxes thus played a crucial role in financing the Dutch Revolt which led to the separation of …