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This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on April 28, 2004.

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Date	Process	Result
March 18, 2004	Featured article candidate	Promoted
March 20, 2005	Featured article review	Demoted
December 12, 2005	Good article nominee	Listed
February 7, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
June 27, 2006	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
October 17, 2006	Good article reassessment	Delisted
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Etymology : "Chuvash pora, its r-Turkic counterpart, which may ultimately be the source of the Germanic beer-word)." Pora : Boza

Additives

The articles currently reads like a beer commercial. There really ought to be a section on potential additives, such as urea, potassium sulfate, sodium benzoate, anti-foaming agents, flavour enhancers, sodium citrate, tartaric acid, corn syrup, genetically modified malt and hops, amyloglucosidase enzyme, and propylene glycol alginate. In particular, sulphites (such as E223) can be potentially lethal (I am sensitive to these myself) and yet neither Britain nor Ireland force suppliers to list their contents. Without this section then the really good beers -- e.g. the German ones that are brewed according to strict purity laws -- cannot be distinguished. TonyP (talk) 14:02, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Variety of English

Why is this article in British English now, when it was so very obviously started in American English? I know how the feeling over here is about American beer, but we can't just change the variety of English in articles on a whim.

I will change the article back to the original version of English July 2018, subject to debate here on the talk page. 2A02:C7D:CA32:CC00:846E:B6B7:85C6:E8C4 (talk) 07:27, 18 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nutritional information

The Nutritional information section needs help. The first two paragraphs are repetitious, and the chart is seriously deficient in volumes and labeling.

108.173.136.51 (talk) 05:29, 29 August 2018 (UTC) baden k.[reply]

"hefeweizen wheat beer" should be a link

Beer#Packaging says

"when serving a hefeweizen wheat beer"

We should make this term a link, since many users won't be familiar with it and others will simply want more information.

The appropriate link should be Wheat_beer#Weissbier

"Weizenbier or Hefeweizen ... is a beer, traditionally from Bavaria, in which a significant proportion of malted barley is replaced with malted wheat", etc.

Thanks - 189.122.52.73 (talk) 19:21, 22 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 14 October 2018

beers do not live any more and they do not hibernate — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clam57 (talk • contribs) 19:06, 14 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 16 October 2018

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A recent and widely publicized study suggests that sudden decreases in barley production due to extreme drought and heat could in the future cause substantial volatility in the availability and price of beer.^[1] 128.200.14.73 (talk) 18:49, 16 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

^ "Xie, Wei et al (2018). Decreases in global beer supply due to extreme drought and heat, Nature Plants, doi:10.1038/s41477-018-0263-1". Retrieved on 16 October 2018.

[1] "Xie, Wei et al (2018). Decreases in global beer supply due to extreme drought and heat, Nature Plants, doi:10.1038/s41477-018-0263-1". Retrieved on 16 October 2018.

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