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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).
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 Indo-European word *olú-t-then came to refer specifically to ale because this is its colour, giving rise to both the Germanic word *alú-þ-and the Ossetic word æluton. [ 7 ] [ 6 ] [ 8 ] In this account, the Indo-European word * olú-t- was also borrowed into the Finnic languages , giving Finnish olut and Estonian õlu .
Cerveza is a Spanish word meaning beer. It may also refer specifically to: Beers. Cerveza Cristal, a Peruvian beer; Cerveza Panama, a popular Panamanian beers;
The term "lager" comes from the German word for "storage", as the beer was stored before drinking, traditionally in the same cool caves in which it was fermented. [ 3 ] As well as maturation in cold storage , most lagers are distinguished by the use of Saccharomyces pastorianus , a "bottom-fermenting" yeast that ferments at relatively cold ...
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 ...
A typical half-litre German Humpen (beer mug). The English word is attested from 1855. [2] It is borrowed from German Stein, which has – aside from its prevailing meaning "stone" – elder regional meanings "beer mug" [3] [4] and "beer measure of 1 litre or 2 Schoppen".
Beer has been brewed in England for thousands of years. As a beer brewing country, it is known for top fermented cask beer (also called real ale) which finishes maturing in the cellar of the pub rather than at the brewery and is served with only natural carbonation. English beer styles include bitter, mild, brown ale and old ale.