1, 1862, the Lincoln administration enacted a recently passed tax of $1 per 31-gallon barrel on “all beer, lager beer, ale, porter and other similar fermented liquors, by whatever name such liquors may be called.” It was the first national excise tax on beer, and it had perhaps the furthest-reaching effect on the drink ...

Since their first brew in 1991, the Rebellion Brewery has been producing high quality, award-winning, draught and bottled beer from Marlow in Buckinghamshire.