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A Heretical Guide ancient Egyptians brewed beer

to Classifying Beer commercially and had various social

by Timothy R. traditions associated with beer, such

Baldwin as an Egyptian gentleman offering a

lady a sip of his beer, thus

If you have announcing their betrothal. I could

friends like mine, also talk to you about how the early

you're bound to brewers used balsam, hay, dandelion,

wind up at some and even crab claw for flavoring. I

holiday party this could even go into detail about beer's

year. At those various uses during the Medieval

parties, someone period beyond its use for nutrition

will likely encourage and celebration. These include

you to try the latest beer by a local tithing, trading, payment, and even

microbrewery. Your friends will grin taxing.

with enthusiasm, saying, “You’ve got Furthermore, I could go into some

to try this!” And you’ll drink out of a depth about the addition of hops to

community cup like it’s a Christmas the brewing process in 1000 AD and

Eve service, only no one will feign how 200 years later, it became a

sanitizing its rim by wiping it with a substantial commercial enterprise in

white cloth. Simultaneously, your Eastern Europe. I could even share

friends will boastfully proclaim the with you some very fun facts like

gospel of beer, using words like how kings used beer to toast victories

aromatic, assertive, or complex. and how Queen Elizabeth I of

You'll take them at their word, and England drank strong ale for

maybe you'll agree with your friends, breakfast. Furthermore, in the

or perhaps you'll know instantly colonial period, George Washington

they're as ignorant about beer as you and Thomas Jefferson each had their

are. But, only if you're honest. own private brewhouses. Then, as the

Growing up, I didn't know much discussion looms upon modern

about beer, and I can't say that I history, I could even go into some

know a lot about it now. But if I did depth about how before the 1800s,

know more, I could talk to you about most beers were simply some

how beer has been ingrained in variation of ale. And, of course,

cultures throughout the world since Louis Pasteur's discovery of yeast in

Noah's Ark with the earliest recorded 1876 significantly impacted the

recipes dating back to 4300 BC. I fermentation process for beer (as well

could talk to you about how the as wine), thus leading to over 2300
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