History of beer - When Did They First Make Beer?
The earliest records of beer have been found in Sumerian pictographs between 10,000 and 15,000 years ago. These pictographs show bread being baked and broken into pieces, then being put into water to form a mash. This was then made into a drink. It has been speculated that the Sumerians discovered the fermentation process entirely by accident, possibly after leaving bread soaked in water.
Not long after this, other people of the world began to discover other kinds of beer, such as corn, wheat, rice and sorghum beers.
The Romans, who drank wine mostly, considered beer to be a barbaric drink, but in areas where wine was scarce, there were beer drinkers. Some cultures believed that drinking beer was akin to drinking the spirit of a god because of its mind altering affects. Ancient Germans treated beer as a sacrifice to their gods.
Beer was so popular in some places that employers paid their workers with jugs of beer.
European monks perfected the fermentation process using Louis Pasteur’s discovery of microorganisms. Before these contributions, they would have to wait for yeast to contaminate the beer, making one bottle vary greatly from the next.
Beer is the oldest known alcoholic beverage, and people are still drinking it all around the world.
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