Neatolicious Fun Facts: Beer

1. Beer is old stuff: Recipe found in 4,000-year-old Sumerian tablet

The first references to beer dates to as early as 6,000 BC. The very first recipe for beer is found on a 4,000-year-old Sumerian tablet containing the Hymn to Ninkasi, a prayer to the goddess of brewing. It tells how to brew beer from barley:

The filtering vat, which makes a pleasant sound, You place appropriately on [top of] a large collector vat.
Ninkasi, the filtering vat, which makes a pleasant sound, You place appropriately on a [top of] a large collector vat.

If you're curious as to how the world's oldest beer tastes like, the Anchor Brewing Company produced a limited edition beer (under the Ninkasi label) based on the recipe.

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Via: Neatorama