Palestine has exactly one brewery, Taybeh Beer, founded in 1993 by Nadim Khoury, who learned to homebrew while living in Boston. He returned to his native Palestine after the “Oslo peace accords between Israel and the Palestinians in 1993, one of the approximately 12,000 Palestinian families who returned to the region to help kickstart the emerging Palestinian economy.” Since then business has grown, and is beer is imported to Germany and the UK, and they’re working on the U.S., but according to the video so far we won’t allow them to import because we don’t recognize Palestine as a separate nation. So much for supporting peace in the Middle East. At any rate, the video below gives a nice overview of the brewery.
Here’s a scan of a postcard I was given by our hotel clerk in Jerusalem. He was from Ramallah, and proud of their brewery.
http://twitpic.com/421jaw
Note spelling: Taybeh.
David,
Kicking self, must be early onset of dyslexia. Thanks for pointing that out.
J