A commercial for Pilsner Urquell from the 1900
The ancient Sumerian, being great lovers of beer, had a goddess of the liquors named Ninkasi. It was believed that it would have created the recipe beer 4000 years ago gave it to people.
We have no way condone this beer and civilization of ancient Egypt where it was a drink 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 the very Osiris , the god after death, eat taught how to make beer. It is also one of the reasons why beer was missing from the feasts and ceremonies dedicated to the god above mentioned.
Reinheitsgebot - the German Purity Law or the Bavarian Purity Law was promulgated in Bavaria on April 23, 1516 and is the consumer protection directives of both old beer .
The original text was provided for the production of beer is used only water, barley and hops. Today Reinheitsgebot is no longer part of German law in the same form was replaced in 1993 by Deutsches Vorläufiges Biergesetz
Initially, yeast or beer and just was not mentioned until after 1800 when Luis Pasteur discovered micro-organisms leading to fermentation. That does not mean that German beer is not fermenting with yeast. Just these microorganisms must be found in the barrels of beer made from fermented.
Prehistoric man would become farmers to drink beer
Posted on: 09/10/2008
Category: InfoBere , beer history
German biologist Josef H. Reichholf History says in his new book "Why have people become sedentary" the transition to agriculture ten thousand years ago that started the so-called Neolithic revolution, it was not in priority purposes, or to improve food, but for the sake of ... beer. The teacher, agriculture did not appear to account for any gaps, but rather, in a time of abundance, given that the first human settlement of sedentary regions were full of wild animals, Neolithic man has actually continued to hunt and to collect fruit to feed, tells the newspaper "Estrella Digital", consulted by Agerpres.
Gambrinus - protector of brewers and beer king
Posted on: 22/08/2008
Category: History of beer , you know that ...
Gambrinus is a legendary king of Flanders XIV century and is considered the patron of brewers and beer. Historians believe that this legendary character is the same person with John the Unafraid , regarded as the inventor of beer with hops . He is celebrated in Europe and North America on April 11.
