Corn beer is a beer style made from

corn Maize ( ; ''Zea mays'' subsp. ''mays'', from es, maíz after tnq, mahiz), also known as corn (North American and Australian English), is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago. Th ...

(maize). The drink is a traditional beverage in various cuisines.

Chicha ''Chicha'' is a fermented (alcoholic) or non-fermented beverage of Latin America, emerging from the Andes and Amazonia regions. In both the pre- and post-Spanish conquest periods, corn beer (''chicha de jora'') made from a variety of maize land ...

, the best-known corn beer, is widespread in the Andes and local varieties of corn beer exist elsewhere.

History

Corn beer in the Andes has pre-Incan origins. There is archaeological evidence that elite women were responsible for brewing in the Wari culture (600 to 1000 AD). In 1796, John Boston created a corn beer, the first fermented alcohol beverage commercially produced in

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. A recipe for corn beer appears in ''Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural'' (1863) by

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. Italian beers Peroni and Nastro Azzuro are made from maize and barley malt.

KEO beer KEO is a Cypriot beer. It is a light straw-colored lager with a thick head, and is sometimes compared to a pilsner in taste. The beer is brewed in Limassol, in Cyprus. The beer won the 1987 brewing industry world bottled lager competition gold ...

from Cyprus is also made with maize, giving a characteristically bitter taste.

Varieties

Chicha is popular in Peru and is served in

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's picanterías.León, Rafo and Billy Hare
Chicha peruana: una bebida, una cultura.
Universidad de San Martín de Porres, Fondo Editorial, 2008: 49-74. (retrieved through Google Books, 28 July 2015) Tesguino is a corn beer made by the Tarahumara people of the Sierra Madre Occidental in Mexico. It is brewed for local celebrations related to Holy Week. For the Tarahumara, the beer is an elixir for healing and a barter item and is considered a sacred beverage. Umqombothi is the Xhosa language word for a corn beer made in South Africa from maize (corn), maize malt, sorghum malt, yeast and water.

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