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Archive for October 28th, 2007

Beer has been the most popular alcoholic beverage of all time. In fact, it is the oldest with records from China dating back 5000 years ago. During the 1900s, America alone has around 2000 independent beer-producing industries but only around 20 of them remained in operation today.

History also records details that master brewers were mostly women and people who worked at beer breweries were respected men and women of the society back in time. There were hundreds to thousand kinds of beer and to date more and more variety is being produced due to research and existing technology. Almost every type of food is fermented to produce an alcohol out of a certain foodstuff which is quite fascinating, too.

There are a couple of beers around and all of them undergo the basic process of fermentation in order to extract alcohol out of foodstuffs. Mead or honey beer for example is made from honey, porter out of malt and Hefeweizen (kind of German beer) out of wheat.

Many are just variants of existing beers, with slight alteration on contents, fermentation or distillation process. Beers have differing alcohol content and can be popular in one state and not in another or very famous in all countries around the globe. We’ll be taking a look at all of them as time goes by here at this Blog.

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