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The origins of the beer go back after starting agriculture. Its manufacture was considered exclusive by women while men hunted and made war.
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In the Inca Empire, the virgins of the Sun (Inti) were in charge of preparing the Inca corn beer, generating fermentation of grain with their own saliva.
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The Hammourabi King established the first laws on beer: "the innkeepers that cheat with the price or the quality of the beer, die drowned". This time the Babylonians made 20 different beer styles.
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Elegant women of Egypt used the beer foam for putting ointment on them and to preserve the natural freshness of the skin. The Egyptians attributed to beer a divine origin
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The Emperor of China produced beer from millet and rice; in Japan, at that time, was only manufactured obtained from rice beer, called up to our days: Sake.
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Beer, like wine, began to be produced by European monasteries, process that some abbeys of Holland and Belgium remain to the present day (Trappist beer)
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The first craft breweries in European cities, while the home made remains in the hands of women. Beer became a profitable business and prompted all kinds of practices
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Approves the law of purity or "Reinheitsgebot", which restricted beer manufacturers to use only water, barley and hops, regulation that has preserved the purity of the precious liquid to date.
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The traditional beer known as top-fermented it is produced at temperatures between 15 and 20 ° C, the Czechs of the city of Pilsen invented a beer of low fermentation made between 7 and 12 ° C, especially gold and clean. to become the world reference for beer in the 20th and 21st centuries.
