The history of beer

About the origin of beer, there are two

1. Originated in the forty-five thousand years ago in Asia, the Syria, Babylon, etc.

2. Originated in the nine thousand years ago in Assyria, the south bank of the Mediterranean region.

Ancient beer production is a cottage industry, raw materials, spices also not uniform. Until the 8th century AD, the German people will use barley and hops.

The middle of the 19th century, due to the heating method is improved and the emergence of the steam engine, and later a refrigerator and the advent of the study of beer yeast, French scientist Pasteur make beer production to science, and to be able to start industrialized mass production.

Another research proves that China is the world's first country to the beer, but not beer, which is called "feels ashamed". Just because the nobles who prefer alcohol wine, and laotet the old sweet wine feels ashamed of forgotten. After one thousand years later, the modern brewing techniques, then spread to China from the west.

Russians in Harbin in 1900 the establishment of a land in our country the first brewery - wu roubles levski breweries. After the Chinese and foreign businessmen and successively in the northeast, Qingdao, Beijing, tianjin, Shanghai, guangzhou has built a large number of producers.

After the liberation, the beer with the rapid development of our country, especially in 1979, after 10 years, is the most splendid period our country beer industry, years of sustained growth rate as high as 30% above. Brewery in 1988 to 813, the total outlaotet of 6.564 million tons, more than Japan, the Soviet union, Britain, after the United States, Germany, in the third world. China's beer production reached 12.25 million tons in 1993, more than Germany, ranking second in the world, to become worthy of the name of beer power, make the whole world sit up and take notice. According to the data analysis, before China is likely to be in the United States in 2002, as the world's beer.