If you drink enough different kinds of beers, as opposed to an excess of one kind of beer, then you begin to develop a taste for beer and then you all of a sudden start to search for a particular taste of beer that you would like to try because your experience with beer tells you that a certain taste may be good in beer.

So you begin your quest and you start to taste every micro brewed beer and foreign beer you can get your hands on and aside from getting very drunk you also start to realize that the taste you are searching for just may not be out there and that if you are looking for a specific taste that is out there then that may be an opportunity to get into Beer Brewing on your own and fill what you see as an opportunity in the Beer Brewing market.  So you set out to learn the art of Beer Brewing and since Beer Brewing is something you are probably allowed to do in your home you get yourself a starter kit and your quest for that perfect tasting beer begins.

You can usually get a Beer Brewing starter kit anywhere and I have even seen them sold in a local supermarket in the same aisle as the soda pop and grape juice.  I always wondered why it was not near the beer aisle but if you can put aside some bad planning on the part of your local vendor you can invest in a Beer Brewing starter kit for about $70 or so and find yourself diving into the world of being a master beer brewer.

It does not take long to realize why it takes years to learn how to brew just the most basic of beers and why it can be so difficult to brew a beer with any special kind of taste.  You can most certainly learn Beer Brewing on your own but you are going to need to develop the same respect for the ingredients and the equipment that master beer brewers use.

It Really Is All About The Whole Picture

When you are learning about Beer Brewing one of the first things any book, or brewer, will tell you is that if you want to brew the same tasting beer then consistency is extremely important and that consistency is not just in the ingredients but it is also in how you use and maintain your equipment as well.  Beer has to ferment and anything added to the fermentation process, including cleaners or extra water from maintaining the equipment, can definitely affect how your beer tastes.

So good luck with your own beer and remember to write down every recipe you try because even the slightest change in a single ingredient can change everything.  Have fun and remember that you don’t have to drink everything you brew.

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One of the various things the Germans are renowned for is beer. Beer is an important part of their legacy and civilization, with more than thirteen-hundred different breweries spread across the land. The Czechs and the Irish are the only ones above the Germans with beer drinking per capita. The monks started to experiment with brewing around one-thousand A.D. at the origin of the Germanic history The country’s monarchy eventually began to legislate the manufacturing of beer as brewing started to be more and more profitable. The Bavarian Reinheitsgebot, or purity standard, was written in 1516 and remains the most prominent and significant aspect to effect German brewing.

The Bavarian Reinheitsgebot was authorized by Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria to help ensure that Bavarian beers were only of the highest quality. Water, hops, and barley are the only ingredients that should go in in beer according to the regulation. Unchanged after almost 500 years, the Reinheitsgebot is the oldest legislation put on food in the world. Yeast is the only extension to the list of vital ingredients in the proclamation. Brewers before had simply used the yeast that was naturally in the air. Because of the stringent code of quality followed by the purity requirement, Bavarian manufacturers were soon considered the superior manufacturers of beer. More and more manufacturers began to adhere to the proclamation as the reputation of the Bavarian breweries continued to spread.

German beers have a long-standing position of producing quality beers made only from the purest ingredients as a result of the Reinheitsgebot. As time passed and Germany started to export beer, a lot of towns became famed brewing spots. By 1500, Scandinavia, Holland, England, and even as far as India primarily got their beer from one of the 600 breweries in the town of Bremen. Einbeck and Braunschweig were two more famous brewing towns. In modern-day Germany, most of the nation’s drinking people still prefer fabbier, or draft beer, over bottled beer because of it’s hardy taste and perfect amount of head foam. Used still today, German beer steins became popular around the time the purity requirement came about in an effort to prevent further breakouts of the black plague.

Germany enacted many regulations to stop its people from becoming ill during the time of the bubonic plague. Disease would spread as large amounts of diseased flies landed in citizen’s food and drink. This led to the German beer stein, a drink container with a hinged top that is used with the thumb so somebody could stop disease and still be able to drink with their free hand. Beer consumption went up exponentially as citizens started to realize the plague spread in dirty conditions with stale water. Originally crafted from stoneware with pewter tops, steins grew in popularity. Steins began to be manufactured entirely of pewter for almost three-hundred years as the pewter guild became more powerful. Eventually, porcelain and silver steins were introduced and continue to be manufactured in the present.

Nowadays there are over thirteen-hundred and fifty breweries within Germany’s borders that manufacture over 5000 kinds of beer. The Benedictine abbey Weihenstephan, which has been producing beer since one-thousand and forty, is reported as the oldest brewery on the earth. The most concentrated area in Germany for breweries is the Franconia region of Bavaria near the city Bamberg. The majority of beers can be placed by ales and lagers but German breweries make a wide variety of tastes. Some types of beer can have an alcoholic content as high as 12%, making them stronger than many wines even though most beers have an alcoholic content from 4.7% to 5.4%.

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Beer is made of barley, fermented yeast, water and various other ingredients. Word beer is derived from the Latin word ‘bibere’ meaning ‘to drink’. It can be safely assumed that beer like beverages were independently invented among various cultures throughout the world.

Ancient Time Beer

The oldest evidence of beer can be found in Southern Mesopotamia; between Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The Historians assert that the Sumarians discovered beer by chance. It might have happened that a wet piece of bread was left for several days. After which it fermented and formed a pale yellowish pulp.

Gilgamesh Epic written in 3rd Millennium B. C. states that, it was not only bread but beer too held an equal importance in society, where a primitive man ‘Enkidu’ were served beer to drink.

“… Enkidu drank seven cups of beer and as his heart soared, he wished himself and became a human being.”

The Egyptians carried the tradition of Brewing Beer. It was the essential food item in their daily meal. They used unbaked bread to make beer and used dates to improve its taste.

It is the Egyptians who taught the Greeks how to brew. Greek then taught the Romans and from Romans, brewing culture spread among the Celtic and Teutonic tribes in Britain and middle Europe. In Roman civilization, beer was only popular to the extreme outskirts of the empire, as wine became more prevalent in Rome. The ancient Germans sacrificed beer to the Gods and used it for their own enjoyment in daily lives. In the first century after the birth of Christ until the Middle Ages, Brewing Beer from baked bread was a work for women.

Beer in the Middle Ages

Monks turned their attention to Brewing Beer in the Middle Ages, shortly before the end of the first Millennium, as they wanted a better tasting and nutritious drink to serve with their daily meal and during their fasting periods. Many old art works reveal the fact that monks enjoyed beer and the historians say, each monk were allowed to drink five litters of beer every day.

Beer became one of the most popular drinks in Europe during Medieval times and was consumed daily by all social classes; especially in Northern and Eastern Europe as grape cultivation was very difficult or almost impossible. In England and Low Countries, the per capita consumption was 275-300 liters a year. The use of hops (Humulus lupulus); a female flower cone of hop plant; for flavoring and stabilizing agents in beer started around 822. Apart from hops people started using juniper berries, blackthorn, aniseed, wormwood, oak bark, rosemary and bay leaves.

In 1516, the Duke of Bavaria, Germany, Wilhelm IV, came up with Beer Purity Law, which is the oldest valid food law in the world. The law stated:

“Herewith shall beer brewers and others not use anything other than malt, hops and water. These same brewers also shall not add anything when serving or otherwise handling beer, upon penalty to body and chattels.”

The Modern History of Beer

With the invention of Steam Engine, industrialization of beer became possible, the brewing culture moved from homemaker’s activity to industry oriented large scale production. Steam Beer Breweries was the first to use steam in order to brew beer. Considerable scientific research on brewing took place in the 19th century. With the advent of technology, wooden barrels have replaced by the metal barrels.

Today brewing industry has become a global business; many multinational companies have invested Billions of dollars. Advances in technology such as refrigeration, shipping and transportation help beer industry to progress. There are lots of options for the buyers ranging from different colors to taste and alcohol percentages.

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