Beer is brewed all over the world. Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don’t know at all beer buddy names. With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer.

A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc. A solution produced by steeping plant materials in water or another fluid. A glass, bottle, or can of any of the above beverages. I bought a few beers from the shop for the party. Can I buy you a beer? I’d like two beers and a glass of white wine.

A variety of the above beverages. Pilsner is one of the most commonly served beers in Europe. I haven’t tried this beer before. The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. 1870, Sidney Daryl, His First Brief. 304: No doubt he then can feed us, wine us, beer us, And cook us something that can warm and cheer us.

To his astonishment she obeyed his command, appearing a minute later with a glass of beer and a wry smile. That meant, among other things, that he was going to be a fast-moving doer. And even when he was three or four, it wasn’t hard for me to know that this wasn’t going to be easy. A bear, any member of the family Ursidae De beer drinkt bier. Wat een beer van een vent daar voorin, he? What a bear of a guy there in front, huh?

De kinderboerderij heeft een aantal zeugen en maar één beer. The petting zoo has a number of sows and only one boar. Wie doet er nu beer in zijn bier? Who in the world would put liquid manure in his beer? Door haar gokverslaving zat ze met een enorme beer opgescheept.

Due to her gambling addiction she was saddled with an enormous debt. Henry zag niet zijn beren op de weg, maar wel bij hem op de stoep. Henry didn’t see his creditors on the road, but he did see them on his doorstep. This article needs additional citations for verification.

Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This records a purchase of “best” beer from a brewer, c. 2050 BC from the Sumerian city of Umma in ancient Iraq. Beer is one of the oldest drinks humans have produced.

The first chemically confirmed barley beer dates back to the 5th millennium BC in modern-day Iran, and was recorded in the written history of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia and spread throughout the world. As almost any cereal containing certain sugars can undergo spontaneous fermentation due to wild yeasts in the air, it is possible that beer-like drinks were independently developed throughout the world soon after a tribe or culture had domesticated cereal. Chemical tests of ancient pottery jars reveal that beer was produced as far back as about 7,000 years ago in what is today Iran. Author Thomas Sinclair says in his book, “Beer, Bread, and the Seeds of Change: Agriculture’s Imprint on World History” that the discovery of beer may have been an accidental find. The precursor to beer was soaking grains in water and making a porridge or gruel, as grain were chewy and hard to digest alone. Ancient peoples would heat the gruel and leave it throughout the days until it was gone. In Mesopotamia, the oldest evidence of beer is believed to be a 6,000-year-old Sumerian tablet depicting people consuming a drink through reed straws from a communal bowl.

In China, residue on pottery dating from around 5,000 years ago shows beer was brewed using barley and other grains. The invention of bread and beer has been argued to be responsible for humanity’s ability to develop technology and build civilization. Beer may have been known in Neolithic Europe as far back as 5,000 years ago, and was mainly brewed on a domestic scale. Beer produced before the Industrial Revolution continued to be made and sold on a domestic scale, although by the 7th century AD beer was also being produced and sold by European monasteries. Today, the brewing industry is a global business, consisting of several dominant multinational companies and many thousands of smaller producers ranging from brewpubs to regional breweries. Rock mortars in Raqefet Cave, used to make beer during the Stone Age.