Amanda Bensen of the Smithsonian blog Food & Think attended a program at that institution on the history of beer. Her post summarizes the long history of the beverage, from prehistoric soggy bread to modern microbrewing.
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But while beer’s popularity waned in the Middle East, it was gaining ground in northern Europe. People there somehow figured out brewing (perhaps via another soggy-bread epiphany) by at least 800 B.C., based on beer residues in a Celtic amphora found in modern Bavaria. Dornbusch says the Romans were the first to invent the modern brewing process—involving malting and mashing—based on the ruins of a 179 A.D. brewery discovered in a Roman settlement near what is now Regensburg, Germany.
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The Romans made some significant advancements to the process of making good beer. That's a cool thing what would we do without them.
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If you don't enjoy a cold beer once in a while, you are spoiked. Ever get spoiked?, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2oGysxM-j4
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Where would the world be with out beer taking the edge off. That liquid courage keeps America's pants up and running. :p
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