The history of beer The history of beer There isn’t anyone that know where and when beer was first brewed. In China they drank beer called “kui” some 5000 years ago, and there is a clay tablet from the Mesopotiama of 4000 years old that talk on the beer, and also in Egypt the beer was an important drink. It is believed that the Egyptian taught the Greeks how to brew beer, and the Romans have learned how to brew beer from the Greeks, next the Romans introduced the beer in the north europe. however, once wine became more prevalent in rome, beer was only brewed on the extreme outskirts of the empire, where one could not get wine, and for this reason the beer was known as the drink of barbarians. during medieval time the church worked on the beer for have a product to sell at the locals, and to give to pilgrims with the bread. But the beer was used from the monks also for the time of fasting or lent periods, because the beer is a drink with a good taste and good level nutritional. The beer was drank in many region of Europe and not only from peasants but also from nobles and kings, and also the Queen Elizabeth I usually had bread and beer for breakfast. until 17th century in england the beer was flavored with rosemary ( beers called Ales ) , because they thought that this plant had magical properties, more precisely this plant had the power to drive away the evil spirits, but in the 17th century from Flanders came the beer with the hop. Two significant landmarks in beer production were the introduction of hops and the invention of bottom fermentation. The top fermentation is made with the warm, at contrary the bottom fermentation is made with the cool. The bottom fermentation has been introduced from bavarian monks, that used cool cellars for fermentation, this method has two important aspect, the first is that the fermentation has less likely to fail, the second is that the residues sink to the bottom of the vessel. In Germany was born the lagerung method, that produced the more light-coloured beer, that we know today. After the industrial revolution the beer is became the most popular drink.