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Ninkasi was the goddess of beer, and as such was associated with its production, consumption and effects - both positive and negative. [8] Jeremy Black described her as "one of (...) minor deities without a strongly defined personality who merely symbolise the object or phenomenon that they are associated with."
A tablet found dating back to 1800 BCE contains the Hymn to Ninkasi which is also basically a recipe for Mesopotamian beer. [13] Sumerian beer was made from bappir, a bread made from twice-baked barley, which was then fermented. [14] In ancient Babylon, women worked as baker-brewers and were often engaged in the commercial distribution of beer.
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 ...
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A hymn to Ninkasi states that while this goddess was raised by Ninhursag, her parents were Ninti and Enki. [7] Ninti and Ninkasi occur near each other in a document from the Fara period . [ 8 ] The relation between Ninti and Enki is also attested in the god list An = Anum , [ 9 ] where she is equated with his spouse Damkina . [ 10 ]
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Named after the Sumerian goddess of beer, Ninkasi was founded in 2006 by Jamie Floyd and Nikos Ridge.The first beer they produced was Total Domination IPA. [2] Production reached 56,000 barrels in 2011 and by 2013 production had increased to 86,000.