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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 ...
The ancient Egyptians made at least 17 types of beer and at least 24 varieties of wine. The most common type of beer was known as hqt. Beer was the drink of common laborers; financial accounts report that the Giza pyramid builders were allotted a daily beer ration of one and one-third gallons. [8]
~3900 BCE: In Mesopotamia (Ancient Iraq), early evidence of beer is a Sumerian poem honoring Ninkasi, the patron goddess of brewing, which contains the oldest surviving beer recipe, describing the production of beer from barley via bread. [36] ~3600 BCE: Date of the oldest definitive known evidence for popcorn, discovered in New Mexico, United ...
Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of rice beer dating back about 10,000 years at a site in Eastern China, providing further insights into the origins of alcoholic beverages in Asia.
A bottle of the beverage discovered in the early 1990s amongst the treasures of Tasmania's 18th century Sydney Cove shipwreck has been determined to likely be the oldest beer known.
A 16th-century brewery Brewing is the production of beer by steeping a starch source (commonly cereal grains, the most popular of which is barley) in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast. It may be done in a brewery by a commercial brewer, at home by a homebrewer, or communally. Brewing has taken place since around the 6th millennium BC, and archaeological evidence ...
Descriptions of various beer recipes can be found in Sumerian writings, some of the oldest known writing of any sort. [1] [2] [3] Brewing is done in a brewery by a brewer, and the brewing industry is part of most western economies. In 19th century Britain, technological discoveries and improvements such as Burtonisation and the Burton Union ...
Juneau, AlaskaAlaska's oldest operating brewery created this amber ale by digging into local history to find a forgotten Gold Rush-era beer recipe once enjoyed by thirsty miners. Made with glacial ...