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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 Denmark, the usual consumption of beer appears to have been a gallon per day for adult laborers and sailors. [21] It is important to note that modern beer is much stronger than the beers of the past. While current beers are 3–5% alcohol, the beer drunk in the historical past was generally 1% or so. [citation needed] This was known as ...
Porter became the first beer style brewed around the world, being produced in Ireland, North America, Sweden, and Russia by the end of the 18th century. [1] The history of stout and porter are intertwined. [8] The name "stout", used for a dark beer, came about because strong porters were marketed as "stout porter", later being shortened to just ...
A 1930s label for McEwan's IPA. India pale ale was well known as early as 1815, [29] but gained popularity in the British domestic market sometime before then. [29] [30] By World War I, IPA in Britain had diverged into two styles, the premium bottled IPAs of around 1.065 specific gravity and cask-conditioned draught IPAs which were among the weakest beers on the bar.
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 ...
Jennifer Coolidge has revealed the great lengths she went to as a kid to try to get alcohol.. The Riff Raff star recalled how she once successfully bought a case of beer at the age of 12 by ...
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.