The word beer comes from the Latin word bibere ( to drink)

The most ancient witness of the production of beer dates back approximately to 6,000 years ago in Asia. Thanks to some findings, we suppose that Sumerians have been the first to create a drink very similar to beer, a sacred drink to be offered to gods.

Five hundred years later, in the region between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, a small board belonging to Assyrian people highlights the profession of the brewer and the use of beer as a drink.

Later, beer is spread in the Middle East and with reference to some recipes, we may understand that people produced already different types of beer.

Beer was very important also in Ancient Egypt. It was called Zythum and it was considered not only the national drink, but it was considered as a drug thanks to its non-perishable nature due to alcohol degree.

Greeks knew and appreciated this drink and they drank a lot during celebrations for the Goddess Demetra, the Goddess of harvest.

Etruscans in Italy produced and drank beer, transmitting this tradition to Romans. Towards 83 a.C. it seems there was the first “pub” in our peninsula.

Among the Barbarians, the greater beer drinkers were Germans and Celts.

During The Middle Ages, monasteries are big producers of beer, and the main producers are Belgian and Dutch monks. They produced beer with the aim to keep the link between religion and beer. The production of beer in monastery has a great step forward in terms of quality and, in fact, among the introduction of several ingredients, we can find Hops for the first time. Before of its introduction, beer was aromatized with herbs, spices and berries.

In Great Britain, English housewives produced and sold beer (ale) and the proceeds was devoted to the maintenance of churches and cloisters.

It is worth to remind in 1516 the publication of the edit on pureness Reinheitsgebot in Bayern, thanks to the Duke of Bayern, William IV. This law forecasted that beer should be produced only with barely malt, water and hops. Later the edit would forecast the introduction of yeast raw material.