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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]
Zythum (from Latin, based on ‹See Tfd› Greek: ζῦθος, zŷthos), sometimes also known as zythus or zythos, [1] [2] was a malt beer made in ancient Egypt. [3] The earliest existing records of brewing relate to the production of zythum by ancient Egyptians, c. 2000 BCE. [1]
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).
Egypt has announced dozens of ancient discoveries in the past couple of years, in the hope of attracting more tourists. Ancient beer factory unearthed by archaeologists in Egypt Skip to main content
Made with rice, honey, grape, and hawthorn fruits, this early beer seems to have been produced similarly to that of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. [2] Ancient Chinese beer was important in ancestral worship, funeral and other rituals of Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, and the beer was called as Lao Li (醪醴 in oracle bone script).
Instead, barley residue and built-in strainers hint they may have been beer straws. Ancient humans used the oldest-known drinking straws to sip beer out of communal party bowls, new study suggests ...
A Tosa homebrewer and a UWM professor are working to revive ancient beer recipes as a way of encouraging people to embrace the history the drink has.