05/04/2021
"The Beer Route & microbreweries in Greece"
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"We will focus on the beer route and specific on the Microbrewery production. The beer appearance is heard to have occurred when the Sumerians neglected a quantity of bread soaked in water and after days noticed that a fermentation process had begun. They themselves began to produce beer and after exporting to Egypt they passed on their knowledge to the Babylonians.
From there it followed its path in all directions worldwide .. According to new data that emerge, as well as those mentioned in the article entitled "Brewing beer in Wine Country?" by Ms. Valamoti published in Vegetation History and Archeobotany on December 30, 2017, we understand that the ancient world had a special liking for beer in addition to the wine that they certainly loved. According to other sources and findings which date to the end of the 2nd and the beginning of the 3rd millennium there are samples of ground cereals and sprouted seeds which have a deteriorating condition due to the malting they have undergone.
Until the years of the Medieval world, in every house there was this nutritious drink all over Europe and its preparation was predominantly under the responsibility of the woman at home. Fasting were nourished by the nutrients and vitamins of the beers they produced. Later, realizing the great value and the great impact that this amazing drink had on the people, the local lords taxed the monasteries to such an extent that they could not afford to continue brewing beer, and so the breweries that operated in the places of worship they finally closed.
Women were also over time accused by the opposite s*x of being witches for reasons of competition and so it was dangerous for a woman to be in the position of brewer.
The portrait of a brewer who "cooks" beer at home wearing a pointed hat to prevent hair falling into the large cauldron, having the cat around it to prevent mice from approaching depicts may be “the doomed figure of a witch”.
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