Beer Brewarage

Beer is broadly defined as a fermented malt beverage. The word beer comes from the Latin word 'bibere' meaning 'to drink'. The Greek goddess of agriculture, Ceres, is the root of the Spanish word for beer, Cerveza. One of the first great works of world literature, the Gilgamesh Epic, references the importance of beer. Beer has played an important role in the lives of many cultures throughout history, but it has implications for these communities is not generally known. Colleges do not teach "Beer History" classes. This is the niche of history that while largely untaught is very interesting to people today, history buff or not. This is because basically the same drink, Samarians brewed 6000 years ago still has an influential position in society.

The culture of the Babylonians from Samarians and thus developed the art of brewing beer. They have developed a capacity to brew 20 different beers. There are 4000 years old, a clay tablet that depicts a master brewers as highly respected members of society. These Babylonian master brewers were women and priestesses. The patronesses of beer goddesses Siris and Nimkasi and there were certain types of beer, which is reserved for temple ceremonies. In 2100 BC Hammurabi, the 6th the king of Babylon, decreed the first written laws. Included in the laws was a daily ration of beer based on the individual's established social status. During this time, beer was never sold, it was used for commerce. Hammurabi would order a saloon keeper drowned for accepting currency for beer.

In Israel, a tablet was unveiled as 3000 years old. It was stated that the beer was produced in Israel as early as the days of King Saul and King David. According to a 2000 year old Assyrian tablet, beer was brought aboard the Arc of Noah.

There is a special hieroglyph for "brewer", which shows the importance of beer in the Egyptian culture. Egypt would be merged into a "house beer" in the evening, it was an important part of the diet of royalty and peasants alike. Beer was also used as a medicine. There is a medical document written in around 1600BC, which includes about 700 recipes. Around 100 of them containing beer. Beer was also offered as a gift or to appease the gods. Nature goddess, Isis was the patron of brewing, so if it was important that the beer be of good quality. Beer is also mentioned in "Book of the Dead", and many Egyptian tapestries.

It is believed that the Egyptians taught the Greeks how to brew beer. Historians even suggest that the prehistoric beer god Dionysus is the root of the Greek wine god Dionysus. Beer was important to the Greeks, so much that the famous writer Sophocles included beer as part of his proposed diet. The Greeks then taught the Romans how to make beer, which in turn taught the barbarian tribes in the United Kingdom. But when the wine has become more widespread in Rome, only beer was brewed on the outer periphery of the empire, where you could not get wine. Because of this, beer was known as a drink of savages.

From the Romans the art of brewing beer was spread to the Celtic and Germanic peoples in the United Kingdom and Central Europe. But beer does not regain its stature until the monasteries began to brew and improve it. The monks built the first breweries, food, shelter, and drink to travelers beginning of the hotel industry. There are three Christian saints are regarded as patrons of brewing, St. Augustine, author of the confessions, St. Luke the Evangelist and Saint Nicholas of Myra, Santa Claus).

In the Middle Ages, beer was brewed by women, as it was regarded as "food beverage". Women were also the cooks, and became known as "ale wives". They will learn from the monks who had established the best ways to brew beer. Many things about this time, "ale". For example, brides often sell beer to pay for the wedding, hence the term "bride-ale", or "brides". Also expression "Yule-tide" comes from the word "beer time". When "Wayfarer Dole was created, beer would be free to travel. A Pilgrim's Dole may still be valid today at Hospital of St Cross, Winchester, England.

Beer evolved into what it is today through the industrial revolution and the continued development of the same culture that brought it through the medieval times.