Incredibly, but the beer appeared in the distant past at the same time as the wheel. Archaeologists say that beer was known in ancient Babylon, that is, already 8,000 years ago. According to another version, the age of beer is 9,000 years. It is based on the discovery of a recipe for beer, carved into a stone in the interfluve of the Tigris and Euphrates by ancient Sumerians. At that time, there was still no cooking technology, and a drink was prepared by grinding barley and spelled (ancestor of wheat). Cereals were flooded with water, fragrant herbs were added and after a few days they received a drink that tasted like modern beer.

     We drank it through a reed straw, so, you can say, beer is an ancestor of a cocktail. Hardly had humanity written, one of the first words written in cuneiform was "beer".

     Brewed beer at first women. This was noted by drawings and other documents of antiquity. But soon the popularity of the drink began to grow, and it inevitably became the subject of trade, which was traditional in men's hands. And brewing moved to strong men's hands.