This is Chapter 7 of my free book on beer and brewing history. Historical period: the 16th-17th centuries CE Scene of action: England After the Netherlands had switched to hopped beer, Britain remained the only bastion of the sweet malt beverage (which they called ‘ale’). At the beginning of the 15th century CE, England was consuming an enormous quantity of…

This is a new chapter for the future Section III ‘The API Product’ of the API book I’m currently writing. I’d appreciate if you share it on reddit, for I personally can’t do that. The important rule of API product management that any major API provider will soon learn formulates…

This is Chapter 7 of my book on beer and brewing history. The work continues on Github. Historical period: the 16th-17th centuries CE Scene of action: Bavaria Right after the beer trade had begun, early laws regulating it emerged. Two main issues are bothering authorities of all the brewing regions: ensuring the quality of the product and taxation. It’s quite…

This is a new chapter for the future Section III ‘The API Product’ of the API book I’m currently writing. I’d appreciate if you share it on reddit, for I personally can’t do that. As we have described in the previous chapters, managing an API product requires building relations with…

Historical period: 15 century CE Scene of action: Bavaria — Let’s now discuss another vital beer ingredient: yeasts. Without them, you can’t brew beer, make wine, or bake bread — which means they were in some sense ‘domesticated’ several thousand years ago. That makes the fact that we actually know very little about yeast domestication even more surprising. We are…

[Beer Lecture] Word on Hops Historical period: the 14th-16th centuries CE Scene of action: German, Baltic, and Netherlands Cities Starting from the 14th century CE, gruit usage (and therefore gruit monopoly profits) begin to decline. The reason was the spread of a cheaper, more effective, and more convenient additive: hops[1] First, hops bitterness allowed to beat unpleasant odors off. Second, hops were a way more effective preservative than herb…

NB: This is a new chapter for the future Section III ‘The API Product’ of the API book I’m currently writing. I’d appreciate if you share it on reddit, for I personally can’t do that. The fragmentation of the API target audience that we described in the previous chapter, e.g…

Historical period: the 10th-14th centuries CE Scene of action: Low Lands and the northern parts of nowadays Germany — The fall of the Roman Empire entailed lots of consequences, including those to the beer history. The pressure that ‘civilized’ Romans put on the brewing industry has ended. New powers of Ireland and Britain as well as Merovingian and Carolingian kingdoms were drinking beer with great pleasure. …

NB: This is two new chapters for the future Section III ‘The API Product’ of the API book I’m currently writing. I’d appreciate if you share it on reddit, for I personally can’t do that. API as a Product There are two important statements regarding APIs viewed as products. APIs are proper products, just…