Thursday, November 24, 2016

Chapter 7 Beer, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

Book: Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History
Author: Bill Price
ISBN: 978-1-77085-427-7

Chapter 7: Beer

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1. Cities started to develop 5500 BCE in Sumer.
2. Sumer was the name of the first development.
3. Sumer was located southern region of Mesopotamia.
4. Sumer is located in Iraq today.
5. People in the early days were paid in the form of bread and beer.
6. A jar is the symbol in tablets that was used to indicate beer.
7. Ninkasi was the name of the Sumerian goddess of beer.
8. The workers of the Great Pyramid of Giza were paid in bread and beer.
9. The workers of the Great Pyramid of Giza were paid in 3 loaves of bread and 2 jars of beer containing about 4 pints.
10. The first written law came from Ancient Mesopotamia.
11. The Babylonian King Hammurabi died c1750 BCE.
12. The Code of Hammurabi was written carved into a stone column and it is now in the Louvre.
13. Under the Code of Hammurabi, there were 20 different categories.
14. Out of those 20 different categories, 8 contained barley.
15. The other beer categories in the Code of Hammurabi were wheat beers, mix grain beers, black beers, and export to Egypt.
16. The Babylonian King Hammurabi was the first to adopt laws governing beer.
17. The Reinheitsgebot of 1516 are the regulations to ensure that Bavarian beer was only made from malted barley, hops, and water.
18. The Bavarian Beer Purity Law was the English name of the Reinheitsgebot of 1516.
19. The purpose of the law was to ensure that wheat and rye were used to make bread rather beer.
20. Lager is the most common beer bought around the world.
21. Lagern is Lager in German.
22. Lager means "to store."
23. Bavarians stored beer in caves during summer to keep it cool.
24. Fermentation from the bottom of the barrels occurs at low temperatures to produce a clear beer.
25. Answers will vary
26. Bavarian Brewer Josef Groll in 1842 took the bottom-fermented beer-making process to the Bahemian town of Pilsen.
27. Pilsen beer is pale lager.
28. Pilsner Urquell means the original Pilsner.

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