Preserves Online: Craft Beers Online

Friday 20 July 2012

Craft Beers Online

So how old is beer? From the time men first domesticated grains about 8000 B.C. they might have brewed beer and inhabitants of various parts of the world certainly were brewing by 3500 B.C. Soon it was the most popular alcoholic beverage in Mesopotamia—beer idioms became part of language and the government took to taxing beer consumption—a position it has enjoyed in most of the world ever since.

We're not drinking beer like Anchor brewed for its Sumerian Beer Project anymore. Although one document from about 400 B.C. names at least 15 different kinds of beer that pales in comparison to the number of varieties, generally known as styles , available today. Many such beers come with their own history. For instance, porter was the first one produced on an industrial scale, and the wood vats it matured in were so large UK breweries christened them by holding dinner parties for hundreds within their confines.