Brief History of Beer

Question 1

Discovery of Sumerian tablets about beer?

Answer 1

A professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 1986

Question 2

What was on the Sumerian tablets?

Answer 2

Pictograms of barley and a barley based bread being crumbled into water making a beverage

Question 3

How did the Sumerian tablets describe the beverage?

Answer 3

As a beverage that made people feel “exhilarated, wonderful and blissful”

Question 4

How old is beer?

Answer 4

6,000 years old but it has been suggested that beer existed in China as early as 7,000 BC

Question 5

When and how did beer arrive in Europe?

Answer 5

In 3,000 BC via the Middle East

Question 6

What happened in the 9th century?

Answer 6

Frankish brewers first utilized hops for flavor and bittering

Question 7

What happened in the 13th century?

Answer 7

The Germans refined hop use in brewing

Question 8

What happened in the 15th century?

Answer 8

Hops were introduced through Holland and into Britain