Twelve thousand years ago, humans were growing tired of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle and had decided to take on farming, settling down in one place instead of constantly on the run for prey. In the effort to take on this new life, they had to store lots of grain, and it was found exceedingly difficult to make the storage containers airtight. Water would seep into the storage containers and would create a sweet mixture, also known as beer. They would find the same result if gruel was left sitting out; the air would ferment the sugar in the gruel into alcohol. Bread, like beer, was derived from gruel. There has been a debate among archaeologists about which came first, bread or beer, similar to the chicken and egg argument. No clear answer has
Beer, the first beverage appeared as a result of changed lifestyle for the early humans. Before, humans were nomads, who would follow their food (pg. 9). But starting about 12,000 years ago humans had picked up on a new lifestyle (pg. 9). These small bands of about 30 people were now settling down in more permanent areas and had abandoned their old ways of constantly traveling (pg. 9). This drastic turning point in human history seemed to primarily come from one reason, the discovery of beer (pg.11). As beer was basically formed from the gathering of barley and wheat, humans had to form some type of permanent residency, and abandon their old nomadic lifestyle (pg.11).
When wet Grain was sweet and when left out as gruel it fermented, turning it into beer.
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2. The author uses sources that date back to the Stone Age, to gather his information on the use of beer. He outlines how society changed from being hunter-gatherers, and relying on the environment for nutrition, to farmers who were independent of scavenging the environment for nutrition.
Beer started out as gruel, and as the gruel fermented it turned into beer. Now it was not the first form of alcohol, but it was an important kind of alcohol. Beer was made from cereal crops, which were very abundant, and because it was so abundant it could be made whenever it was needed. They then found an even easier way to make beer by using beer-bread. Beer bread is basically everything needed to make beer in a loaf, making it convenient to store the raw beer materials. Beer started as just a social drink but then blossomed into a “hallmark of civilization”, as seen by the Mesopotamians. Grain was the basis of the national diet, it was
In the chapters “A Stone-Age Brew” and “Civilized Beer” from the book A History of the World in 6 Glasses, Tom Standage describes how beer affected the lives of the first humans who lived in year-round settlements and later in the first civilizations in Mesopotamia and Egypt. Beer played a significant role in turning the first humans from hunter gatherers to farmers. Beer was discovered in the Fertile Crescent around 12,000 years ago, when gruel derived from gathered grains (a staple food) that was in storage fermented. These ancient groups of hunter-gatherers found this beverage “slightly fizzy and pleasantly intoxicating” (Standage 15) and realized it was more easily made than other alcoholic drinks. Over time, the quality and variety of beer increased by trial and error.
Beer is linked to the growth of the first civilizations because it represents the adoption of farming. The domestication of cereal grains such as barley and wheat shows us that civilizations had begun to settle down and abandon the nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle. The discovery of beer shows an increase in social complexity that leads to the development of the first cities. The storage of cereal grains was an encouraging factor for the new civilizations to stay in place, which in turn created the first permanent settlements in the Mediterranean.
Our nomadic ancestors survived by hunting and gathering this meant they had to migrate from place to place to follow their prey,this was until 12,000 years ago when they discovered farming and its benefits along with this they discovered the unusual qualities of some of their crops. The grains they grew produced a substance that they began to consume in everything, They Had discovered Beer.In the aincient cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia beer was defenetly an impacting drink, everyone who was anyone in any social class and
I have actually been trying for a while. I was taking some meds that made me gain like 5lb a month which was incredibly frustrating. But I'm off of those and finally back to loosing weight. I have actually finally cut out the two things things that I believe have been holding me back the most and that's; fast food, and alcohol. I tried to tell myself that eating chicken sandwiches from Wendy's or chicken soft tacos from taco bell was healthy. Obviously it isn't. I have actually started grilling all of my food (mainly chicken and some pork tenderloin) and not only do I feel better, but I enjoy grilling and it tastes much better. The alcohol thing is probably temporary but the amount of alcohol to get me feeling good is enough
Without microbes, we would not have bread, cheese, or beer. We would not have things that we needed to survive in the early times of humanity. As referred to in lecture on Friday, beer was originally used in place of water and was most water. However, beer did not spoil unlike water allowing to hydrate people like sailors for months on end.
Supportive Point 1: It is known that the start of beer is closely associated with the cultivation of cereal grains. Humans adopted farming and made a switch from a nomadic life to a modern, settled life. It is also thought that the ability to store cereal grains helped with keeping people in one place. When cultivating cereal grains if the whole family worked for eight hours a day for three weeks, there would be enough grains for the whole family to eat a pound a day for a year.
Eventually beer also had other qualities that allowed farming to progress and that is that beer was not harmful to humans as water was (21). Because of this people found out different ways in which they could produce this drink by having different forms of agriculture advancing its form from regular seeds being planted to massive productions, just as did the Greeks and Romans did by using their slave population to farm all of their grapes for the wine in order to drive a successful wine market (71). Farming allowed for populations to grow from small villages to cities to then allow the adoption of beer and wine to become an essential product that drove agriculture to the civilization and growth of people. Along the same lines we can also see how this development of beer due to farming allowed people to become more than just any regular barbaric man, and show that they were people with class.
Beer has a long history. In 2000 B.C.E., Sumerians had prepared eight different beer types, ranging from “strong,” “red brown,” and “good dark” (Mauk, 2013). Breweries have created their own recipes, brewed their own beers—some with alcohol, some without. Over the past few years, craft beer gained steady market share away from the national and international breweries (Murray & O 'Neill, 2012). Separating one beer from the next is the product itself, and what the product has to offer. Competition is ferocious due to more informed, sophisticated consumers, as well as globalization and the spread of technology (Murray & O 'Neill, 2012).
Beforehand, the evolution of bread has improved with new technology, resulting in many types of bread. Dating back to the Neolithic era, when cereal grains and water were mixed into a paste and cooked, bread is considered to be one of the oldest prepared foods. Around 10,000 BC, with the dawn of the Neolithic age and the spread of agriculture, grains became the backbone of making bread. The earliest bread grains was ground by hand with rocks, resulting in coarse whole grain bread, which would have descended from Europe known as the pumpernickel. In like manner, the Mesopotamians refined this procedure approximately around 800 B.C, using two flat circular stones stacked on top one another to grind the grain. These stones were continuously circumvolve by draft animals or slaves. Take note that the mass cultivation of wheat leads to omit animal power to speed up
"Beer. This beverage is derived from the brewing and fermenting of malted grain or cereal, usually barley and other cereals. The term "beer" is used generically to refer to any fermented drink made from malted cereal grains and comes from the Latin word bibere, meaning "to drink." The brew is flavored with hops, and the alcoholic content in contemporary beers in America is generally about 4 to 5 percent by volume. In the U.S., beer is normally taken to mean lager beer, which is brewed in a bottom- fermentation technique. Other types are classed as ale, porter, stout, malt liquor, bock, steam beer, or sometimes according to region of origin such as Pilsener, or Dortmunder. The origins of beer and