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Beer is an alcoholic beverage produced by the brewing and fermentation of starches from cereal grains—most commonly malted barley, although wheat, maize (corn), rice, and oats are also used. The fermentation of the starch sugars in the wort produces ethanol and carbonation in the beer. [1]
The written history of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia records the use of beer, and the drink has spread throughout the world; a 3,900-year-old Sumerian poem honouring Ninkasi, the patron goddess of brewing, contains the oldest surviving beer-recipe, describing the production of beer from barley bread, and in China, residue on pottery dating from ...
Beer is an alcoholic beverage produced by extracting raw materials with water, boiling (usually with hops), and fermenting. In some countries, beer is defined by law—as in Germany, where the standard ingredients, besides water, are malt (kiln-dried germinated barley), hops, and yeast.
The intoxicant known in English as `beer' takes its name from the Latin `bibere' (by way of the German `bier') meaning `to drink' and the Spanish word for beer, cerveza' comes from the Latin word `cerevisia'...
When the Greeks arrived in Egypt, they were unimpressed by beer, which they called zythos, referring to its foaminess. Preferring wine, they thought of the sprouted malt as a form of rotted grain and disdained the drink the Egyptians derived from it.
We know that beer comes from fermented cereal grains, like wheat or barley. In ancient times, beer was made by crushing grains and heating them with water to help start the fermentation process. Soaking barley bread with yeast was also customary for making beer.
This post has demonstrated that beer was called beer because it is a drink that people loved. Borrowed from the Latin word bibere, Germans were the first to use it, and others picked it from them. However, the Germans were not the first to discover the beer; the credit goes to Mesopotamia.
Why is beer called beer, and what’s the meaning of the word itself? It’s a great question, and one that has two possible answers. The first is that beer is thought to have come from the Latin word “bibere” meaning “to drink”.
In the broadest sense, “beer” is any alcoholic beverage made by the fermentation of grain, just as wine is any alcoholic beverage made by the fermentation of fruit. In the vast majority of the world’s beers, the grain base is barley.
An account of why beer is the most beloved drink in the world, following a trip to Munich's Oktoberfest.