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. Chemical tests of ancient pottery jars reveal that beer was
produced about 7,000 years ago in what is today Iran, and was one of the
first-known biological engineering tasks where the
biological process of fermentation is used in a process. In
ancient Mesopotamia, clay tablets indicate that brewing was a fairly well respected occupation
during the time, and that the majority of brewers were women. Some types of
beers were used especially in religious ceremonies. Beer was even part of the
daily diet of Egyptian Pharaohs over 5,000 years ago.
No one
knows today exactly how this occurred, but it could be that a piece of bread or
grain became wet and a short time later, it began to ferment and an
inebriating pulp resulted.
These early accounts, with pictograms of what is recognizably barley, show
bread being baked then crumbled into water to make a mash, which is then made
into a drink that is recorded as having made people feel "exhilarated,
wonderful and blissful!".
The Sumerians were able to
repeat this process and are assumed to be the first civilized culture to brew
beer.
Beer was first produces in Guyana by entrepreneur Peter D’Aguiar in
1959http://www.banksdih.com/?q=about-us
. Two years later shares of the company were sold and Banks Breweries in
Barbados was open. The link below is a tour of the Banks DIH in 1994.
Since then, Ansa Mcal and other
companies have opted to import other brands of beer to Guyana. There are seven
known different beers available on the Guyanese market to date.
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