Eisenstein congruences play an important role in modern number theory. We survey some topics related to these congruences, starting from the example of Ramanujan's Delta function modulo 691. This paper does not contain any new results, except Theorem 2.4. This paper is a survey about (higher) Eisenstein congruences and their applications in number theory. As far as the author is aware, the first example of Eisenstein congruences was found by Ramanujan in [46]. Consider the formal series ∆ = q ∏ n≥1 (1 − q n ) 24 = ∑ n≥1 τ(n)q n (for τ(n) ∈ Z). Ramanujan proved that for all prime p we have τ(p) ≡ 1 + p 11 (modulo 691).