Historians have to tell of what in ancient times different people were doing beer.
Not every drink has such a rich history and geography as beer. This popular intoxicating drink was in different Nations Millennium ago.
The first recipe of barley drinking carved on clay tablets, attributed to the ancient Sumerians and Babylonians. Common in Mesopotamia was a dark and thick beer with a low alcohol content, and bitterness, he gave a different mixture of herbs.
The ancient Egyptians called their beer “heck” is seasoned with saffron, anise. Also they added poisonous Mandrake, believing in its healing properties. This beer was sweet and strong.
The ancient Hindus had their own beer — “javara”. The main cereal for him was sorghum. Chinese beer lovers its earliest beer brewed from rice, and American Indians — corn, fried grain to a darker shade and getting the beer of the corresponding color. In Europe the technology of brewing came from the Middle East. In BC, the Europeans already knew how to cook for two hundred varieties of barley drink.
With the first beer and the first linked to the tradition of its consumption. So, in Ancient Egypt there was a so-called “beer day”. According to custom, the father of the bride after the wedding the whole day free fed and watered brother-in-law a beer. And in Babylon dishonest brewers ruthlessly punished. In this case the convicted person himself could choose — or drown in a barrel with their substandard goods, or to revel in them to death.
