Brewing Beer - Beer is one of the oldest alcoholic beverages and is produced by the brewing process.

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Brewing Beer

Beer is one of the oldest alcoholic beverages and is produced by the brewing process. In modern times beer has taken an evident omnipresence in our everyday life and is an ideal tool for gathering people. For some nations beer plays a central role to the lifestyle and you may be surprised to hear for example that Germans drink beer at lunchtime, after work, in the evening and some people have it even during breakfast. Today, there are available over 70 styles of beer and each has different characteristics derived from the ingredients and brewing process. I personally really like the saying: Not everyone enjoys every beer, but every beer is brewed because somebody enjoys it.

Beer is thought to be more than 10,000 years old. Archeologists believe that it first started accidentally when a grain was soaked by rain and than warmed by the sun. This mixture was fermented by natural yeast producing beer. The drink became famous in the Middle Age when people were fighting for clean water, which was difficult to find, and so beer became a safer beverage to drink.

Early brewers heated grain over open fires resulting in dark, smoky malt that produced dark beer. In the industrial revolution in the mid-1800s brewers invented a way to dry malt in large rotating heated drums that left the grain light in colour and produced a pale, golden beer. In the late 19th century it was discovered gas refrigeration, which meant the brewers for no longer had to worry about the outdoor temperatures of heating and cooling stages. Some breweries developed mass production, employing large-scale, equipments and large-scale production.

Today beer is made by large manufactures in ...