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BEER

Hall of Fame

CHAMPIONSOFBEER

From a Sumerian goddess to a French scientist, meet ten

figures who played an important role in the history of beer

KUBABA

SUMERIAN
C. 2500 BCE – 2330 BCE
Kubaba is the only
queen to feature on
the Sumerian King
List, an ancient text
that lists the rulers of
Sumer. She was said
to have ruled for 100
years during the Early
Dynastic III Period,
as the only member
of the Third Dynasty
of Kish. Fascinatingly,
she was originally
a tavern keeper © Alamy
who brewed and
sold her own beer
before ascending to SUSANNAH OLAND ENGLISH 1818-1885
the throne. She was Oland moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, with her husband
succeeded by her son and family in 1862. It was here that she began brewing and
and grandson and in selling her own beer at home, creating a recipe that produced
later years after her a brown October ale. She founded her own successful
death, Kubaba was brewery, originally named Turtle Grove Brewery, along with
also worshipped as a her husband, but she was the one who ran the business.
©Alamy goddess. Oland’s brewery was renamed Moosehead Brewery in 1847
and it’s the oldest independent brewery in Canada today.

GEORGE WASHINGTON ALEXANDER
NOWELL
AMERICAN 1732-1799 ENGLISH C. 1517-1602
Better known as a Founding Father and the First
Image source: wiki/ Metropolitan Museum of Art also had an affinity for beer and he regularly promoted Image source: wiki/Google Cultural Institute dean of St Paul’s
Nowell was the
President of the United States, George Washington
Cathedral during
the benefits of the alcoholic beverage. Beer was often
the reign of Queen
brewed on his Mount Vernon estate and he even
Elizabeth I, and he’s
wrote his recipe To Make Small Beer during the 1750s.
often credited as the
accidental inventor
and established his temporary
of bottled beer.
Washington Washington frequently visited taverns According to the 17th-century preacher
headquarters at the Bull’s Head
ensured that Tavern in New York City and scholar Thomas Fuller, Nowell left
each soldier in the during the American War of behind a corked bottle of ale after going
Independence. He even gave his
Continental Army was famous farewell speech to his fishing and returned for it a few days later,
given a quart of beer officers at the Fraunces Tavern discovering that it was still drinkable.
While it’s unlikely that Nowell actually
as part of their daily following the end of the war. invented bottled beer, this myth continues

rations to persist to this day.

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