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History of beer

Post by Davin » Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:28 pm

History of Beer


Beer is one of the oldest beverages humans have produced, dating back to at least the 5th millennium BC and recorded in the written history of Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.

Etymology

Of the two terms, beer and ale, the latter is the older in English. It is believed to come directly from the proto-Indo European root *alu-, through Germanic *alu

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Post by sirgiovanni » Wed Jul 11, 2007 9:20 am

If anyone ever comes across any books, written between 500 and 1500 a.d. that references the brewing/consumption of beer, or recipies, could you please forward me the book reference? Thanks!

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Dublin beer bandit raids Guinness

Post by Dwayne_Delaney » Fri Nov 30, 2007 9:36 am

Guinness is brewing Bud???? Blasphemy!!!

Perhaps the the thieves are planning on making Black and Blands......


Dublin beer bandit raids Guinness

By SHAWN POGATCHNIK, Associated Press WriterFri Nov 30, 6:20 AM ET

Irish police were hunting for a beer bandit who stole 450 full kegs from the Guinness brewery
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Post by Jim W » Sun Dec 02, 2007 9:24 am

Felllers. More proof that in this day and age of increasing globalization and chicanery, you can only trust your local home brewer. Or the well trod microbrewery. Somewhere an Irishman is rotating rapidly in his eternal slumber.
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Post by john mills » Tue Mar 25, 2008 1:05 pm

I'm not sure how long ago this article came out, but it's a good read. http://health.msn.com/nutrition/article ... &GT1=31036 made me thirsty as well.
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Post by john mills » Thu May 08, 2008 3:22 pm

For all the bottlers out there. See if you can match that bottle without the label to the beer!

http://www.chilliman.com/beer_labels_frame.htm

I only scored a 7. I guess I haven't been drinking the bad beers of the world in a while.
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pumpkin

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Post by john mills » Wed Aug 20, 2008 2:46 pm

Looks like the hop shortage might be a little better. The Czech report estimates hop production for 2008 will be a new record. http://www.praguemonitor.com/en/396/cze ... ess/26531/
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Post by john mills » Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:35 am

2008 World Beer Cup winners.
http://www.beerinfo.com/index.php/pages ... ercup.html
Looks like Indiana Breweries took 3 medals total from all 91 categories.
Three Floyd's Dreadnaught - bronze
Three Floyd's Behemoth - gold
Upland's Winter Warmer - silver
Just proves there's more than corn in Indiana!
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Post by Don » Wed Dec 10, 2008 9:30 pm

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Re: A place for interesting beer-related articles.

Post by sirgiovanni » Tue Feb 24, 2009 12:51 pm

Some of this is not so scientific but it's still an interesting way to spend an hour, cuz it's about beer!

http://braukaiser.com/wiki/index.php?ti ... on_mashing
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Post by sirgiovanni » Fri Mar 06, 2009 7:55 am

I'm not done with this paper and don't have my bibliography on it yet, but if anyone would be interested in the information or interested in reading it to give me some feedback for improvements, I'd love to hear what you think. It's a brief history on beer into the middle ages for my SCA group, when I enter beer into competitions.

http://members.sigecom.net/sirgiovanni/history.htm
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Re: A place for interesting beer-related articles.

Post by Dwayne_Delaney » Sun Mar 08, 2009 10:12 pm

sirgiovanni wrote:I'd love to hear what you think.
Nice work, very interesting.
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"Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is"
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Re: A place for interesting beer-related articles.

Post by Don » Mon Mar 09, 2009 10:02 am

Nice work, looks like you've done a lot of research.

Don
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