Beer
Also called brew
Cooks use beer as an alcohol. It is made with water and yeast, can have a creamy texture and citrus, floral, and herbal aromas, and is sold in cans.
- Contains alcohol
About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details
- Category
- Drinks
- Texture
- Creamy
- Cooked most in
- Europe
- Top country
- Belgium
- Dishes
- 4 in the catalogue

Photo: Len Rizzi (photographer) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
In the kitchen
How to use beer
Flavour
Taste and texture
Aroma
- Citrus
- Floral
- Herbal
Texture
- Creamy
Shopping
Choosing and storing beer
- Sold as
- Canned
Around the world
Where beer is cooked
On the table
Dishes made with beer
Wereszczaka
Meulemeester eggs
Belgium
Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include beer.
Good to know
Diet and allergens: beer in detail
- Alcohol
- Contains
Around the world
What beer is called
Spanish
cerveza
French
bière
Italian
birra
Portuguese
cerveja
German
Bier · Gerstensaft
Dutch
bier · gerstennat
Greek
μπίρα · ζύθος · μπύρα
Turkish
bira · arpa suyu
Russian
пиво
Polish
piwo
Arabic
جعة · الجعة · البيرة · بيرة
Persian
آبجو · آب جو
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Afrikaans
bier
Albanian
birra
Amharic
ቢራ
Ancient Greek
ζῦθος · βρῦτος
Angika
यवसुरा
Aragonese
biera
Aramaic
ܦܙܐ
Armenian
գարեջուր
Aromanian
birâ
Assamese
বিয়েৰ
Asturian
cerveza
Atikamekw
napier
Awadhi
बियर
azb
پیوه
Azerbaijani
pivə
Bangla
বিয়ার · মদ্যপ পানীয় · মদজাতীয় পানীয় · চোলাই
Bashkir
һыра
Basque
garagardo
Bavarian
Bia
Belarusian
піва
Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)
піва
Betawi
bir
Bhojpuri
बियर · बीयर
Bikol
serbesa
Bosnian
pivo
Brazilian Portuguese
cerveja
Breton
bier
Bulgarian
бира · пиво
Buriat
пивэ
Burmese
ဘီယာ
Cantonese
啤酒
Catalan
cervesa · birra
cdo
bì-ciū
Cebuano
serbesa
Central Kurdish
بیرە
Chechen
йий
Cherokee
ᎤᏬᎩᎵ · ᎠᏬᎩᎸᏍᎩ
Cheyenne
héesevo'tamahpe
Chinese
啤酒 · 麥仔酒
Church Slavic
пиво · ⱂⰻⰲⱁ
Chuvash
сăра
Colognian
Bier
Cornish
korev
Crimean Tatar
bira
Croatian
pivo · piva
Czech
pivo
Danish
øl
dty
बियर
Egyptian Arabic
بيره
Esperanto
biero
Estonian
õlu
Extremaduran
cerveza
Faroese
øl
Fiji Hindi
beer
Fijian
bia
Filipino
serbesa
Finnish
olut
Friulian
bire
Galician
cervexa
Gan Chinese
啤酒
gcr
labyè
Georgian
ლუდი
Gothic
𐌰𐌻𐌿𐌸
Guarani
kaguyjúi
Gujarati
બીયર
Haitian Creole
byè
Hakka Chinese
phî-lu
Hausa
giya
Hebrew
בירה
Hindi
बियर
Hungarian
sör
hyw
գարեջուր
Iban
Bia
Icelandic
bjór
Ido
biro
Indonesian
bir
Interlingua
bira
Interlingue
bir
Irish
beoir
isv (Cyrillic)
пиво
isv (Latin)
pivo
Japanese
ビール · 麦酒 · ビヤ
Javanese
bir
Kannada
ಬಿಯರ್
Karachay-Balkar
сыра
Kashubian
piwò · bërsz
Kazakh
сыра
Kazakh (Cyrillic)
сыра
kbp
pɩyɛɛrɩ
Kinyarwanda
inzoga
Komi
сур
Korean
맥주
Korean (North Korea)
맥주
Kurdish
bîra
Kyrgyz
сыра · пиво
Ladino
bira
Lao
ເບຍ
Latin
cervesia · cervisia · cerevisia
Latvian
alus
Ligurian
bïra
Limburgish
beer
Lingua Franca Nova
bir
Literary Chinese
啤酒
Lithuanian
alus
Lojban
birje
Lombard
bira
Low German
Beer
Low Saxon
bier
Lower Sorbian
piwo
Luba-Lulua
maluvu
Luxembourgish
Béier
Macedonian
пиво
Maithili
बियर
Malagasy
labiera
Malay
bir
Malayalam
ബിയർ
Manx
lhune
Māori
pia
Marathi
बियर
Mari
сыра
Min Nan Chinese
bì-luh · bē-á-chiú · be̍h-á-tsiú · bē-á-tsiú
Mongolian
шар айраг
nah
yoltexhuino
Navajo
bizhééʼ hólóní
Nepali
बियर
Northern Frisian
Biir
Northern Sami
vuola
Norwegian Bokmål
øl
Norwegian Nynorsk
øl
nrm
biéthe
Occitan
bièrra
Odia
ବିଅର
Old English
bēor
Oromo
faarso
Ossetic
бæгæны
Palatine German
Bier
Pashto
بير
Picard
biére
Piedmontese
bira
Pontic
Μπύρα
Punjabi
ਬੀਅਰ
Quechua
sirwisa
Romanian
bere
Romansh
biera · gervosa
Rusyn
пиво
Samogitian
alos
Sardinian
birra
Saterland Frisian
Bjoor
Scots
beer
Scottish Gaelic
leann
Serbian
пиво
Serbian (Cyrillic)
пиво
Serbian (Latin)
pivo
Serbian (Latin)
pivo
Shan
ပီႇယႃႇ
Shona
doro
Sicilian
birra
Silesian
bjyr · biyr · piwo
Simplified Chinese
啤酒
Simplified Chinese (China)
啤酒
Simplified Chinese (Malaysia)
啤酒
Simplified Chinese (Singapore)
啤酒
Sindhi
بيئر
Sinhala
බියර්
Slovak
pivo
Slovenian
pivo · pir
Southern Sami
voelege
Sundanese
bir
Swahili
bia · pombe
Swedish
öl · bira · bärs
Swiss German
Bier
Swiss High German
Bier
Tajik
оби ҷав
Tamil
பியர் · பீர்
Tatar
сыра
Telugu
బీరు · కళ్ళు
Thai
เบียร์
Tibetan
སྦི་རག
Toki Pona
telo nasa pan
Traditional Chinese
啤酒
Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)
啤酒
Traditional Chinese (Macao SAR China)
啤酒
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
啤酒 · 麥仔酒
Tsonga
byala
Tumbuka
phele · moŵa
Udmurt
сур
Ukrainian
пиво
Upper Sorbian
piwo
Urdu
بیئر
Uyghur
پىۋا
Uzbek
pivo
Venetian
bira
Veps
olud
Vietnamese
bia
Volapük
bir
Võro
oluq
Walloon
bire
Waray
serbisa
Welsh
cwrw
West Flemish
bier
Western Frisian
bier
Western Mari
сыра
Western Panjabi
بیر
Wu Chinese
啤酒
Xhosa
ubhiya
Yakut
пиибэ
Yiddish
ביר
Zaza
bira
Zhuang
laeujbizciuj
Zulu
ubhiya · utshwala
Sources and credits
Data
- GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
- Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
- Wikimedia Commons: photos
- Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Wikidata item: Q44
Photos
Photo: Len Rizzi (photographer) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons