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BEER

History Of Beer

Earliest Beer

Recipe 5000 BCE

While the earliest beers
likely date back even further,
the earliest known written
recipe is from papyrus in
ancient Egypt. This form of
beer was likely very different
from what we know today,
with a lot of sediment and
drunk with a straw.

Image source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Rogers Fund, 1911

Image source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1955 BURIED WITH BEER 1325 BCE BEER HEADS NORTH 179 CE BEER PURITY 1516

Bavaria passes the Reinheitsgebot, a
As evidence of the importance
The Romans bring the art of beer
placed upon beer in Egyptian culture,
with them to Northern Europe, with
series of regulations on what’s allowed in
Tutankhamun is buried with several
evidence of brewing found at Castra
the making of beer. The only permitted
vessels filled with the beverage for his
Regina, a Roman outpost on the
ingredients are water, barley and hops
(yeast wasn’t mentioned as it wasn’t yet
journey through the afterlife.
Danube in Germany.
1516
1000
1325 BCE
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3400 BCE
ELIZABETH’S BEER BAN 1572
Image source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Rogers Fund, 1948 The earliest evidence of barley- © Getty Images Having previously used herbs or © Getty Images Elizabeth I bans the brewing of
‘Double Double Beer’, a super-strong
a mixture called gruit to help flavour
based beer has been found in
beer, the hop plant becomes popular,
Godin Tepe in modern Iran. The
variant of the drink that is believed
adding bitterness when introduced
to be contributing to a rise in public
residue was found in pottery
disorder around the country.
early in the brewing process and
from excavations there.
aroma when included later.
Saint Of Beer New Plzen 1295
Wenceslaus II founds
642 CE the trading town of New
Frankish Bishop, Arnulf of Plzen at the confluence
Metz, is the patron saint of several rivers in
of brewers. One of the stories Bohemia and grants its
associated with him is that citizens the right to brew
around 642, after his death, Did beer there. From this Image source: wiki/turystyka.torun.pl
pilgrims from Metz pray to you know? town, the beer variety
him for aid and their near- known as Pilsner would
empty beer pot fills up with Thereareatleast originate centuries later.
fivepatronsaintsfor
enough for them all to drink. © Alamy brewers,showingthe
importanceofthe
profession
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