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Did you know…mmmm beer

From didYouKnow.org:

Worldwide, 20,000 brands of beer are brewed brewed in 180 styles, from ales, lagers, pilsner and stouts to bitters, cream ales and iced beers.

Beer has been a popular beverage for a long time. Babylonian clay tablets show detailed recipes of beer making in 4300 BC. Beer was also brewed by the ancient Chinese, Assyrians and Incas.

An Egyptian text of 1600 BC gives 100 medical prescriptions using beer. A few years ago, the New Castle Brewery in England brewed 1,000 bottles Tutankhamun Ale from a 3,200-year old recipe found in the sun temple of Queen Nefertiti.

Commercial beer making was established in 1200 AD in present-day Germany. In 1506, the German Purity Law is issued, specifying that beer ingredien

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2 Responses to “Did you know…mmmm beer”

  1. David Sandey Says:
    December 19th, 2005 at 8:27 pm

    Hmmmmm….did you know that King John decreed in the Magna Carta in 1215 that:

    There shall be standard measures of wine, ale, and corn (the London quarter), throughout the kingdom.

    There we have the legal importance of beer cemented into the founding document of the British and American constitutions, legal systems and declaration of human rights!

  2. Administrator Says:
    December 19th, 2005 at 8:52 pm

    Proof positive that beer = liberty!!