- Brewing is believed to have taken place since around the 6th millennium BC, although the first-known alcoholic beverage is a 9,000 year old Chinese beverage of rice, honey, and fruit.
- More concrete evidence of beer dates back to the Sumerians of Mesopotamia and ancient Egyptians
- There is a theory that beer may have surfaced as much as 12,000 years ago with the rise of “cereal agriculture”
- Fermentation may have been discovered by accident!