where did beer come from?

Answer 1

As almost any cereal containing certain sugars can undergo spontaneous fermentation due to wild yeasts in the air, it is possible that beer-like beverages were independently developed throughout the world soon after a tribe or culture had domesticated cereal. Chemical tests of ancient pottery jars reveal that beer was produced about 7,000 years ago in what is today Iran, and was one of the first-known biological engineering tasks where the biological process of fermentation is used.

In Mesopotamia, the oldest evidence of beer is believed to be a 6,000-year-old Sumerian tablet depicting people drinking a beverage through reed straws from a communal bowl. A 3900-year-old Sumerian poem honoring Ninkasi, the patron goddess of brewing, contains the oldest surviving beer recipe, describing the production of beer from barley via bread.

Beer became vital to all the grain-growing civilizations of classical Western antiquity, including Egypt — so much so that in 1868 James Death put forward a theory in The Beer of the Bible that the manna from heaven that God gave the Israelites was a bread-based, porridge-like beer called wusa. The modern anthropologist Alan Eames believes that "beer was the driving force that led nomadic mankind into village life...It was this appetite for beer-making material that led to crop cultivation, permanent settlement and agriculture."

Knowledge of brewing was passed on to the Greeks. Plato wrote that "He was a wise man who invented beer.
The Greeks then taught the Romans to brew.

Also in egypt they had a whole city devoted to transporting beer throughout their empire.

Answer 2

~I get mine from the grocery store - unless I want it on tap in which case I go to a bar. Of course, in some states you have to go to the package store. What a waste of time and gas. (You folks have my sympathy.) However, beer predates the Egyptian Empire and some enterprising stoneage man probably sucked on some rotting hops to figure out there was a brew to be made. He may have even been the first schmuck who thought about eating an oyster. Who knows? Chances are some ancient may have even drunk his own pee after a night of swilling down wine. The color and alcohol content would be about right.

Answer 3

Beer's origins are prehistoric, so we'll never know the name of what must be one of the most important men ever to live.

Answer 4

...but essentially, the fermenting process cleans and kills the bacteria.
Water was often polluted with poo, so having a drink that was safe was a masterpiece of forethought.
You Americans drink chemical kosh, it tastes like the poo it's replacing.......except in Michigan, I discovered a lot of great beers there.

Answer 5

the earliest i've read of beer is from the Tigris & Euphrates valley in egypt before 4000 b.c. i've also read of it being brewed in Babylon around 2300 b.c.

Answer 6

It flows from the springs of the Gods

Answer 7

from YOGI BEER .....he had ALE haimer disease.

Answer 8

germany.how it was made I don't know