Beer, chocalate, and cocaine are some of the the Aztec's creations.
Beer was discovered by a tribe of Neanderthals hidden deep in a cave in France by the Beer God. That who discover the beer.
Yees they 'discovered' chocolate.
Their home pages has a very thorough account of the beer's history: http://www.carlsberggroup.com/experience/timeline/Pages/default.aspx
of course. beer was most likely discovered about 6000 years before JC, but they found formal proof of beer by the fourth century before JC one of the reasons for drinking beer (or actually any other alchoolic beverages), is that alchool did not spoil as fast as water, and so people would tend to stay more healty, longuer.
You can't buy it now, but about twenty five years ago or so, just when I discovered it's great taste, it went off the market. Until Jim Koch made Sam Adams there was no great beer, however Erlanger was a good beer. Now praise the great God of Beer for all the micro-breweries, or for most of them anyway.
No one knows for sure, but brewing dates at least the beginning of civilization in ancient Egypt, according to Ernest Cherrington.
Louis Pasteur was studying fermentation in various substances, including beer and milk. He discovered that souring in milk was due to the fermentation of lactic acid bacteria, leading to the process of pasteurization to prevent spoilage.
German beer was brewed by Germanic tribes in the area almost 3000 years ago! It is a process that has been around almost since the beginning of human existence. The Germanic tribes probably discovered it by accident using local grains.
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a black cat called marmite just happened to be perousing about the beer brewery when he accidentally tipped a large ammount of salt into the vat where beer was being made. when the vat was drained there was discovered to be a thick salty substance on the bottom. to this day this is called marmite
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