how were the first to created beer?

Answer 1

Beer is one of the oldest human-produced beverages, possibly dating back to at least the 7th millennium BC (perhaps prior even to bread), and recorded in the written history of Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.[4] Earliest known chemical evidence of beer dates to circa 3500-3100 BC.[5] As almost any substance containing carbohydrates, namely sugar or starch, can naturally undergo fermentation, it is likely that beer-like beverages were independently invented among various cultures throughout the world.

Beer produced before the Industrial Revolution was mainly made and sold on a domestic scale; though by the 7th century AD beer was also being produced and sold by European monasteries. During the Industrial Revolution, the manufacture of beer moved from artisan manufacture to industrial manufacture, and domestic manufacture ceased to be significant by the end of the 19th century[6]. The development of hydrometers and thermometers were scientific advances that changed brewing because they allowed the brewer more control of the brewing process and greater knowledge of the results.

Today, the brewing industry is a huge global business, consisting of several multinational companies and many thousands of smaller producers ranging from brewpubs to regional breweries to increasingly popular home brewing.

Answer 2

The oldest proven records of brewing are about 6,000 years old and refer to the
Sumerians. Sumeria lays between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers including Southern
Mesopotamia and the ancient cities of Babylon and Ur. It is said that the Sumerians
discovered the fermentation process by chance. No one knows today exactly how this
occurred, but it could be that a piece of bread or grain became wet and a short time later, it
began to ferment and a inebriating pulp resulted. A seal around 4,000 years old is a
Sumerian "Hymn to Ninkasi", the goddess of brewing. This "hymn" is also a recipe for
making beer. A description of the making of beer on this ancient engraving in the
Sumerian language is the earliest account of what is easily recognized as barley, followed
by a pictograph of bread being baked, crumbled into water to form a mash, and then made
into a drink that is recorded as having made people feel "exhilarated, wonderful and
blissful." It could be that baked bread was a convenient method of storing and transporting
a resource for making beer. The Sumerians were able to repeat this process and are
assumed to be the first civilized culture to brew beer. They had discovered a "divine drink"
which certainly was a gift from the gods.

Although beer as we know it had its origins in Mesopotamia, fermented beverages of
some sort or another were produced in various forms around the world. For example,
Chang is a Tibetan beer and Chicha is a corn beer and Kumis is a drink produced from
fermented camel milk. The word beer comes from the Latin word bibere, meaning "to
drink", and the Spanish word Cerveza originates from the Greek goddess of agriculture,
Ceres.

Answer 3

Just wanted to add to that first, excellent answer that I had an archaeologist, ancient history prof who said that many suspected it was beer that was the impetus for the Agricultural Revolution.

Don't know what the current thinking it, that was decades ago. But I always found it an interesting thought.

We tend to assume it was food production that inspired those folks to cultivate grains, but maybe it was the desire to have surplus they could use to make beer.

Answer 4

It is believed the ancient Egyptians were the first to brew beer but we will never know for sure. The oldest brewing equipment has been found in the tombs of pharaohs and other Egyptian nobility.

Answer 5

Egyptians

Answer 6

Persians

Answer 7

I always thought it was Monks