Beer Is Not Just Beer..........

Gain an insight into the subject courtesy of Hillybilly White Trash........

Beer

Beer is the foundation of human civilization. Around 8-10 thousand years ago (after spending the previous 190,000 plus years accomplishing nothing more than figuring out how to build a campfire and chip flint spear points, if Darwin is to be believed) man figured out how to cultivate grain. This led to the baking of bread which people soon figured out how to crumble up and ferment into beer. Source

Beer was not invented so that Sumerian college students could get drunk and run their chariots into walls. It was a way to concentrate the nutritional properties of grain in a palatable form and feed a population. The warm glow that beer gives to the drinker was considered a gift from the beer goddess Ninkasi.

Beer formed a staple of the diets of civilized man in ancient Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt and Europe right up into the Industrial Revolution. Only in certain areas of the Mediterranean which particularly favor the growing of grapes was wine able to replace beer as an important source of calories for the general population.

Beer is primarily divided into two categories ale and lager.