The origin and development history of beer

Beer is the oldest alcoholic beverage of mankind and the third most consumed beverage in the world after water and tea. Beer was introduced to China at the beginning of the twentieth century, and it is a foreign alcohol. Beer is translated into Chinese “啤" according to ”English Beer”, and it is called "啤酒", which is still used today. Beer is a low alcohol alcoholic drink that full of carbon dioxide, with barley malt, hops, and water as the main raw materials, fermented by yeast fermentation.

Beer originated in the Kingdom of Babylon (now in Iraq) of Mesopotamian.It was the Sumerians who lived there at the time who bring beer to humans. The "Blue Monument" in the Louvre Museum in Paris records how the Sumerians of Babylon sacrificed the goddess with beer in the 3rd century BC . In fact, the inventor of beer was Sumerian.

About 3,000 years ago,along with trade between Mesopotamia and the Nile Valley,ancient Egypt on the lower Nile learned to brew beer. At that time, the ancient Egyptians and ancient Babylonians noticed the medicinal value of beer and used beer to make medicine. The Greeks also loved beer, and they learned how to brew it from the Egyptians.

In the 4th century AD, beer spread throughout Northern Europe.The types of beer are becoming richer. Among them, the honey mead brewed by the British with honey and water is a relatively famous one. A kind of dark beer that appeared in Britain is also very famous, which is very similar to modern dark beer. In the 1st century AD, the Irish brewed a beer similar to the modern light beer. It wasn't until the 8 century AD that the Germans fixed barley and hops as raw materials for brewing beer that a major breakthrough was made.With the progress of human science and technology, it was not until the 19th century that beer brewing was gradually industrialized.

With the expansion of world trade,the beer market penetrates mutually and import&export volume increases.The major beer exporters in the world are Holland, Germany, Mexico, the United States and Belgium, and the major beer importers are the United States, The United Kingdom, Italy, Germany and France, with the largest import volume of the United States.

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