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Chinese brew a beer called Kiu.
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Roman legions introduce beer to Northern Europe.
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During Medieval times beer is used for tithings, trading, payment, and taxes.
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Hops were first added to beer by monks in monasteries that sought a way to better preserve beer.
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German Brewers develop the lager method of brewing.
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Upon landing in the New World, Columbus observes that American Indians are making beer from corn and black birch sap.
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Duke Wilhelm IV of Baveria established the Beer Purity Law (Reinheitsgebot) establishing that beer may only be produced from hops, barley and water. It remains the oldest food law still in existence.
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Beer is used as and in conjunction with medicine in Egypt. Boys are advise to consume two jugs of beer and three loaves of bread per day.
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Beck's Brewery is founded in Bremen, Germany. The brewery is still in operation today and is the oldest continually operating brewery in the world. Beck's is the most widely-sold German beer in the world, available in about 90 countries.
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The first commercial brewery in the colonies opens in New Amsterdam. (New York City)
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Arthor Guinness takes out a 9,000-year lease at the St. James's Gate Brewery in Dublin, Ireland and begins brewing the popular Irish Dry Stout, Guinness.
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Oktoberfest established in Munich, Germany.
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The first golden lager is produced in Pilsen, Bohemia, which today lends its name to the Pilsner style of lager.
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The modern era of brewing in the U.S. begins with commercial refrigeration, automatic bottling, and rail road distribution.
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Louis Pasteur unravels the secrets of yeast in the fermentation process and develops pasteurization to stabilize beer 22 years before the process is applied to milk.
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Prohibition starts in the United States making alcohol consumption, sale, and distribution illegal to all citizens.
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Prohibition ENDS! Prohibition is repealed by the 21st Amendment, once again allowing the creation, sale and consumption of alcohol in the United States.
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The beer can is introduced for the first time.
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President Carter legalizes the private brewing for private citizens and micro brewing takes off. As of July 2013, there were nearly 2,500 microbreweries and craft brewers in the United States.
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Established in 1993 by Tom Young in Sparks and in July 2010 expanded to Reno location. Great Basin distributes its beer to Northern Nevada, Southern Nevada, and Northern California and has won national recognition at mircobrew competitions.
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Battle Born Brewing Company founded in Reno, Nevada.
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Whether you love it, hate it, are morally or ethically sworn against drinking it, are too young to drink it, or are just plain indifferent to it, beer is just about everywhere you look. But why? Beer has been around for millennia, and its uses in that time are varied indeed. While hard evidence of its use dates back more than 6,000 years, some historians believe that beer has been around for closer to 10,000 years or even longer. SONG
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Beer is consumed in Egypt for its nutrients and many believe that the pyramids would not have been built had it not been for beer.
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References to beer appear in Egyptian texts. It is brewed commercially for royalty and is included in burial provisions for the journey to the afterlife.
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Babylonian clay tablets detail recipes for beer. The civilization produced large quantities with around 20 varieties.
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The nomadic lifestyle of early humans is gradually given up in favor of farming-based settlements. Grains (such as barley, a primary ingredient of beer) are the first crops domesticated by humans.
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