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10,000 BC Ancient Mesopotamians and Sumerians brew beer.
6000 BC beer recipe praising the Goddess of Beer, Ninkasi is written.
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Egyptian hieroglyphics show beer as the Pyramid builders main beverage.
4000BC the king of Babylon wrote laws governing the price and conditions for the sale of beer. (One must be paid in corn and brewers who dilute their beer were thrown into their brewing vats.)
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49 BC Ceasar toasted his troops with beer after crossing the Rubicon, which began the Roman Civil War.
· 23 BC Chinese brewed beer called “kiu”
500-1000 AD brewing begins to be practiced in Europe with centralized production in monastaries.
11th and 13th centuries commercial breweries began to be established in Europe.
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13th century to the 16th century brewing flourished and several guilds were set up in an effort to regulate the process.
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In 1502 on his fourth voyage Columbus discovers the natives of Central America enjoying a beer like beverage made from corn that he likens to English beer.
1609 first American “Help Wanted” advertisement of any kind appears in a London newspaper, calling for brewers to come to Virginia.
1620 Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock because beer was running low.
1759 Arthur Guinness started brewing ales at St. James’s Gate Brewery in Dublin
1810 Munich establishes Oktoberfest as an official celebration.
1829 D.G. Yuengling Brewery founded in Pottsville PA.
1842 Czechs develop the Lager method of brewing.
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1867 Leinenkugel’s Brewing founded in the Northwoods of Wisconsin by Jacob Leinenkugel
1876 Louis Pasteur proves that yeast is the agent responsible for the fermentation of beer.
1873 German immigrants Adolph Coors and Jacob Schueler, established a brewery in Golden, Colorado
1880 Coors bought out his partner in "The Golden Brewery".
1885 Frederick Miller brewed his first barrel of beer in Milwaukee Wisconsin.
1916 Prohibition
1925 Corona is first brewed by Cerveceria Modelo in Mexico
1933 Repeal of Prohibition (April 7th)
· Heineken becomes first imported beer to hit U.S. shores after Prohibition with its first shipment arriving into the port of Hoboken, NJ on April 11, 1933.
1965 Fritz Maytag buys Anchor Brewing Company
1979 Ken Grossman builds a small brewery in Chico California that is today Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.
1980s Brew pubs and microbreweries become popular
1985 Boston Beer is founded by Jim Koch
1988 Jack Joyce founds Rogue Brewery in Portland Oregon
1989 Home brewers Jeff Lebesch and Kim Jordon start New Belgium Brewery in Fort Collins with a handful of ingredients and an imagination full of recipes.
1990s Craft beer movement takes off with annual volume growth increasing from 35% in 1991 increasing each year to a high of 51% in 1995.
1997 Corona Extra becomes the top-selling imported beer in the United States,
2008 Coors Brewing Company and Miller Brewing Company merge US operations
- InBev acquires Anheuser Busch
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