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Philistine pottery beer jug. Beer is one of the oldest human-produced drinks. 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 ...
Old English: Beore 'beer'. In early forms of English and in the Scandinavian languages, the usual word for beer was the word whose Modern English form is ale. [1] The modern word beer comes into present-day English from Old English bēor, itself from Common Germanic, it is found throughout the West Germanic and North Germanic dialects (modern Dutch and German bier, Old Norse bjórr).
In response to the growth of craft breweries globally, some commentators, [6]: 122 [14] German brewers, [15] and even German politicians [16] have argued that the Reinheitsgebot has slowed Germany's adoption of beer trends popular in the rest of the world, such as Belgian lambics and American craft styles.
Export is a pale lager brewed around Dortmund, and is fuller, maltier, and less hoppy than Pilsner. 12–12.5° Plato, 5–5.5% ABV.Germany's most popular style in the 1950s and 1960s, it is now becoming increasingly rare.
This is a list of brewing companies in Germany. Beer plays a significant role in the German culture , and for many years, German beer was brewed in strict adherence to the Reinheitsgebot , a regulation that permitted only water, hops , yeast, and malt as beer ingredients.
Josef Groll. Josef Groll (German: Joseph Groll; 21 August 1813 – 22 November 1887) was a German brewer, best known for being the first brewer of Pilsner beer. [1] He is sometimes called "the Father of the Pilsner". [2]
Pilsner Urquell, the world's first pale lager and ancestor of today's Pilsners. Pilsner (also pilsener or simply pils) is a type of pale lager.It takes its name from the Bohemian city of Plzeň (German: Pilsen), where the world's first pale lager (now known as Pilsner Urquell) was produced in 1842 by Pilsner Urquell Brewery.
The majority of the beer is sold in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany and South Korea, it is also sold in China, Japan, [6] the United Kingdom, [7] [8] Canada, United States, [9] Sweden, [10] Hungary and Austria. In recent years, the unpasteurized "tank" version of the beer has become increasingly available.