There is no way to overlook the presence of beer and civilization of ancient Egypt where there was a beverage of all: both for adults and children.

To understand the importance of beer in ancient Egypt and was valued as was the drink should keep in mind and legends about the origins of this drink. The ancient Egyptians believed that himself Osiris , god after death, honor taught how to make beer. It is also one of the reasons for not missing beer feasts and ceremonies dedicated to the god above mentioned.

Excesses in consumption of beer were common among the aristocracy, so the scenes in which slaves their masters ajutatu to vomit during the Drunkenness was considered part of the feast.

Long thought the beer Ancient Egypt was of poor quality, made by fermentation of bread in water. This result was more consistent beer and food was being considered and used to pay labor especially the poor. Neither nobility not refuse a pitcher of beer , but much higher quality.

[Ad] beer consumed by the rich no longer have that consistencies present on fermented bread. Beer was strained and filtered after fermentation and consumed in mixtures with various fruit syrups or medicinal herbal extracts honey. Thus, in the finest combinations of taste beer was offered to gods, and the dead in tombs of the rich are found significant amounts of beer .

Heroglific, beer is represented by a pitcher . Given the activities in which comes from ancient Egyptian beer this sign is used in content words and phrases: trumpet, drink, food and drink, servant. Become so popular no Pharaoh dared not charge a fee for alcohol consumption or producearea this. Only Cleopatra (69-30 BC), Ptolemaic dynasty, the Greek nation was the idea of taxation of alcohol including beer , like any government today.

Recently, in 1996, Delwen Samuel of the University of Cambridge, by microscopic analysis of pitchers of beer found in tombs, found that not all beer was of poor quality and was processed by the fermentation of bread in water only. Thus, for the rich, the manufacture of beer using malt barley , and a type of wheat, Emmer , instead of hops. Following the results, as well as recipes and descriptions of the manufacture of beer found in the writings of ancient Egypt heroglifice was manufactured beer or beer Pharaoh King Tut Of