History of Beer - Building a Civilization - World History - Extra History - Part 1
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Just how old IS beer? Join us as we dive into Part 1 of the History of Beer and the civilization that has been built around it. Starting from the neolithic era and the theories on how it was invented. To the ancient recipes that were found in the Goddess Ninkasi ruins. The history of beer has a long and bountiful past, so grab a pint and have a seat!
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I love ur guys video
Will Nihonshu aka Sake aka Japanese rice wine be part of the series? Given that it's more akin to beer than wine despite the translation.
In Lest Darkness Fall Padway gets rich making Brandy
How was this comment made four days before the video was released
I'm a German this is exactly my topic
A series on the history of beer premiering during Lent. Considering how each series is chosen, I'm confident it's just a coincidence, but the comedic timing's impeccable.
Im sure someone will fail lent bcs of this
let this be our test, eh?
Wot.Sorry I don’t speak smart
feels like they could make a drunk history animated series now
Wtf is lent?
The Catholic Church has several patron saints of beer, including my favorite saint story: Arnulf Of Metz was a bishop in France with a devoted following in his home parish. When he died, those parishoners made a pilgrimage to retrieve hia body, but ran out of water on the way and asked for his intervention. Legend holds that their water containers then filled with beer that lasted them the rest of the journey.
I've heard stories that modern beer was created by monks so they could keep themselves sexually dormant. Hops certainly has a strongly estrogenic effect. It is my personal experience that beer drinkers tend to be more corpulent than those that drink stronger stuff. Of course, it's best to face the tragedy of life head-on, without toxin-induced delusion.
If I remember correctly, Saint Arnulf of Metz was the head of the Frankish arnulfing clan, which one of the two Frankish clans that made the Karling dynasty!
As a Bavarian i am a living example of a civilisation build by, with and for Beer
Hopefully the mistakes aren't un-beer-able
Which makes me doubt Gilgamesch civilised enkidu with bread and beer . If that worked the Saupreissn should some singns.
Gonna drink in your honor, buddy!
Cheers!
@@ruffusgoodman4137 Cheers!
I used to live in Nurnberg beer was a food group.
The "Pots that make the beer good" made me laugh out loud, i love it when we translate ancient things and they are literal descriptors. It makes ancient peoples far more relatable. As always a great video.
Thank you!
yeah it's a nice reminder that ancient people were pretty much the same as us.
My father has always been more of a beer drinker than me. But years ago I found a beer company that fit my history loving side and his search for a good beer. Dogfish Head Brewery had an "Ancient Ales" line, where they worked with archeologists to try to re-create ancient brews from what has been found in those ancient pots that make the beer good. Solid stuff.
My father loves dogfish head, pretty solid beer
Well that's definitely something I need to try.
Dogfishhead is a great choice. Tons of variety from them.
Do they have medieval gruit beers(with other herbs than hops)? Ive tried brewing mead myself. Its pretty good. Im surprised its not more popular. All the aromas of the honey is in the aftertaste. It was pretty strong. And took alot of time to ferment due to honey being kind of antimicrobial. It ended up pretty strong and flat though. Like a wine. For a bubbly version you need some other process.
Once upon a Netflix there was a documentary called ‘how beer saved the world.’ Hard to find anymore but now the beer-goddess provides us with this.
Seriously, one of the best documentaries Netflix had. It was really good and informative.
I think the 1% alcohol point is important contextually. You’d have to drink a lot fast to get sloppy, which I think is important to note when the common narrative was “everyone before coffee came to Europe was at least pretty tipsy all the time”
You also have to be a pretty lightweight drinker to actually get more then a very slight buzz from something under 2%. The amount of 1% beer you need to drink to get drunk is so high that the water content will make affect you more then the alcohol and it is a bit dangerous to drink that much of it.
However, the actual alcohol content of historical drinks could be discussed. Few recipes had that exact time it needs to ferment so it is not unlikely a lot of the historical beers were something like 2.5%. That is still weak compared to today's more popular beer that tend to be more around twice that strength but certainly enough to keep you a bit buzzed. It is really hard to say since while you can make out what was in the beers be sampling old pottery the alcohol content can't be detected that way and as any fan of "Eating history with Max Miller" here on TH-cam can tell you, ancient recipes are usually not that exact with anything.
People in the past were certainly not drunk all the time, at least not the average person but many might have been slightly tipsy a lot more then most people today.
Wine was same: in Greece and Rome it wpuld normally be drunk watered down; drinking wine straight was for barbarians!
@@hypotheticalaxolotl it is not possible to make beer at 30%. Most yeast stop fermenting and become dormant at 10%. Some go to 15 or a little bit higher, but absolutely nothing can ferment to 30%. You need to distill to reach that high, and that's no longer beer.
@@hypotheticalaxolotlNo way Egyptian's made 30%; the highest they would've made was probably 5% as IPAs (~8%) didn't come around until the 1700s
@@zimboiii9025 the Egyptian were a clever bunch, I wouldn't be surprised if they discovered that if they discovered water evaporates easier than alcohol. The beer left in the warm room one day was way stronger than the others for example
As someone who built a civilization with beer i can confirm that everything inside of this video is factually true.
That sentence demands elaboration- screams for it even, please provide some.
Watch out for the spiffing brit, he would prosecute you for tea heresy.
At 1:50, how is beer older than the pots they brewed it in?
As a professional brewer, I have been looking forward to this series since you first mentioned you were doing a series on beer. I can't believe its finally here.
Thanks so much for hanging out with us!
"Beer! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems!" -Homer
Homer Simpson
Who knew he was so right?
Damn! I made the same comment above!
"Beer is proof that god exists and wants us to be happy."
I was being consumed that day.
As someone who just recently landed a job at Anheuser -Busch, the timing of this series is rather timely for me
yasss! Congrats on the new job!
Oof
30 years ago my favourite Anthropology Prof spent two entire classes explaining his theory of how brewing beer was the actual drive for domesticating grains and therefore civilation.
I can believe that.
"We need a spirit of victory, a spirit that will carry us to our rightful place under the sun, a spirit which can recognize that we, as inheritors of a proud civilization, are entitled to our rightful place on this planet. If that indomitable spirit were to arise, nothing can hold us from achieving our rightful destiny."
-C. V. Raman
Не, спасибо. Я и так этим "духом победы" уже объелся и рискую от него свихнуться.
@Leo the Anglo-Eastasian the original one was getting old so I drew a new one
This Raman guy seems smart. Someone should give him a prize or something.
“I’ve got a basket of mushy, rotting grain. Will that work?”
Fun fact!
In the radiant city of Lyon, France (look, I live here) there is a brand of craft beer and brasserie named Ninkasi, from the name of the goddess.
After we heard about that from one of the waiter, we took the habit to start each meal there with a toast to Ninkasi.
Fantastic idea! Now we know what to toast to!
Chinese beer
As a alcoholic in training, i must say this new series has me hooked
😅
Dude, addiction is no joke, please don't put yourself in those shackles....if u were just joking then nvm.
Try mixing wine beer whisky and vodka
@@u-shanks4915 wonder is thats good
@@AbdelEmperor Nah, just joking, I like a drink and plan to open a brewery but not a acoholic, more of a cokehead, jk jk
Bible scholar here.
Wine was wine, the possible translation issue is with another word, previously commonly translated as "strong drink".
Be sure to bring this up again in later parts of this series, so it is more likely to come up in lies.
Biologist and fellow Christian here. Also, grapes in ancient Judea would have likely been harvested in August. In a world before refrigerators, pasteurization and most common food additives, the grape juice would have fermented by Passover. Having actual fresh grape juice in that part of the world at that time of the year would have been itself a miracle. So, yea, it was wine.
There is also the problem with the many "edits" made to the original texts.
See, back in the day beer was a peasant's drink and wine was nouble.
So it is very possible that it was beer, but because of the importance of the events for the christian faith, a "superior drink" became associated to it in the texts, many of them written down only after years of spreading throug oral tradition.
Also the Nicean Concile had a very heavy hand on deciding what was and what wasn't truth about Jesus, so associating the drink of kings to God's son was a must, so hey may have selected those pieces of text.
A prophet of God does not encourage drinking
@@iluan_ Ah, very good to know.
I'm more of an OT specialist, but this is cool info :)
It really is remarkable how much the story of "beer" is the story of civilization. I actually read a very interesting book called The History of the World in Six Glasses, which goes over the history of six drinks that defined human history. Beer, wine, distilled spirits, coffee, tea, and soda. It is a very fascinating perspective to take on history.
We'll have to check that one out!
"Is there enough to say about beer to fill an episode?"
To which I respond with a quote from "The Epic of Gilgamesh": "Here is bread, the staff of life and beer, the staff of civilization."
Seeing Cthulhu with some beer makes me smile.
Absolutely looking forward to more videos in this series.
As an Australian, it just made me think of Kaiju brewery's "Cthulhu On the Moon"
One of my favorite art pieces from the episode!
Hello
but we must not forget despite the alleged effects of beer, it was forbidden by religion
" ( 90 ) O you who have believed, indeed, intoxicants, gambling, [sacrificing on] stone alters [to other than Allah], and divining arrows are but defilement from the work of Satan, so avoid it that you may be successful."
Approximative translation of Sura al-maaida
@@zaradousthaanthony4702 Cool story but I don't remember asking.
Brazilians who watched the Empire of Brazil series, after discovering that the following series was about beer: “We can stay a little longer…”
No joke: Brazil is the third greatest beer market in the world, after USA and China.
I mean, it's the third populated country in the world, that does not have cultural backlash against alcohol ^^
Only India, Pakistan, Indonesia and Nigeria are more populated than Brazil, and both Islam (majoritary in Pakistan and Indonesia and half of the population of Nigeria) and Hinduism (majoritary in India) prohibits the consumption of alcohol.
Which would be more interesting is seeing how much per capita people consume, in which case Brazil is around the 30th, with 58,4L per year per habitant. The world's leader by far is Czech Republic, since 1993 (year of ts independance ^^), with a whopping 188L per year per habitant. The second, Austria, is only at 100L per year per habitant XD
@@krankarvolund7771 I support my Czech brothers. They have perfected the art of brewing light beers. Me as a Belgian can proudly say we have perfected the art of breking strong beers. I hope Czechia and Belgium at least get mentioned in this series.
And we own Mérica's largest brewery 😆😆😆 (halfsies w/ Belgium, but still counts)
Anyway I love a lot of beers regardless of the origin. I am also really intrigued about the Brazilian beer culture of drinking all their beers ice cold, for some beers this is heresy. But chopa or colorado ice cold at the beach is lovely
@@WarCoockie First, it is scorching hot down here, so if it is not coffe we're drinking cold; second, when one says beer in terra brasilensis we hear pilsen, any other would be sort of an exotic drink.
Today I learned the origin of the name Ninkasi. Which is also the name of a fantastic craft brewery in Eugene, OR. I guess they knew their history!
Fun fact: Humans living in early agricultural societies were shorter and weaker than their hunter gatherer cousins. They worked longer and had less time for recreation.
The only upside to agriculture in the early days was booze.
Plus cavities in their teeth from all that sugar from carbs.
Interestingly, the archeological record in the Middle East actually seems to indicate that people tried village life one, around 9-10 thousand years ago, droppes it, and then went back around seven thousand years ago.
Likely it had to do with climate shifts that made the hunter-gatherer lofestyle temporarily non-viable, but it's telling that people dropped village life like a bad habit when hunting and gathering became viable again.
To be fair, that's a pretty decent upside.
Plus they could house and feed more people. Later specialisation improved life further, until the industrialisation came around.
@@Dreagostini I don't know if it was all improvement, they toiled for the developing upper class. They did a survey of hours worked and found the hunting society of modern San people work less than 8 hours per week with the rest devoted to family and personal time. They hit large game with their poison arrows and just follow along until it drops dead. Quite a stress free working life. Hell of a lot better than the poisoned airs of industrial London. Not everyone would consider trading open plains for crowded cities and poor health an upgrade.
Ancient Egyptians paid their workers in beer and bread, every person would get the same amaunt. You could see that in Assassin's Creed Origin's.
It's not because it's in AC that it's true ^^
Yeah, they paid some workers in beer and bread, but not all of them received the same thing. And some received more than bread and beer, like the workers that uilt the pyramides eated beef, which was a rarity at that time.
That's gonna be another thing I learned from the Animus Database.
I gotta get myself a copy of AC:O someday
@@stillzeuvermensch7646 You really should, it's a great game.
Just realized that the local brewery in my home town is named after the goddess of fermentation. This is officially a rabbit hole
Hometown is Lyon?
Aphrodite: I am the goddess of love.
Hera: I am the goddess of matrimony.
Athena: I am the goddess of wisdom.
Ninkasi: I am the goddess of beer.
Phrat boys: You had me at beer.
Ninkasi*
@@biohazard724 Ah thanks.
watching the history of beer while drinking beer is quality
Simply the BEST!
Its pretty crazy to think we're doing the same thing our ancestors did so long ago.
"beer the drink that built civilization"those six words explain so much
It’s nice to see EH’s classic art back for a big series again!
Thanks :D
@@davidhueso Of course, your art is full of character and incredibly styled! Always a pleasure to see your work :^)
I just love David's art for these more "abstract" series
Thanks a lot !
We do too!
For extra reading check out Garrett Oliver's "The Brewmaster's Table." The first chapter is a great look at how we discovered fermentation (in fact our first fermented beverage was likely the simplest, therefore mead but not in the viking style) Also, his analysis of styles by time period and region has yet to be outdone and he gives ideas for pairing that would make a sommelier blush.
The history of humanity goes hand in hand with the zymurgic arts and I'm thrilled to see this!
Chocolate: I bring happines and...
Coffe: I brought the enlightment
Beer: amateurs
"Beer is the cause and solution to all of life's problems."-Homer Simpson.
Excellent.
I know that I am going to love this series. One mistake though, the alcohol in beer does not kill the bacteria. This is a wives tale. In order to make beer, you have to cook the wort. It is the heat from the cooking, that kills the bacteria.
Thanks for the vid
I too have read Robert Evans’ “A Brief History of Vice”
"To Alcohol! The cause of... and solution to... all of life's problems"
Homer Simpson
Homer loves me.
Beer, and alcoholic beverages in general, have been some of the most influential liquids, or substances for that matter, in human history, right next to water.
Perhaps more important; as prior to sanitation drinking water that didn't have alcohol mixed in was asking for disease.
@@jonnunn4196 In human history, I’m inclined to agree. Counting it’s entire ancestry though, water plays a bigger role.
Isn't water part of beer? And crops aren't fed beer.
“Here's to alcohol, the cause of, and solution to, all life's problems.”
-Homer Simpson
I'm Homer's best friend.
I am glad to have found this channel again. Some 2 years I think now. It is great to watch these series once again and to see how much has changed. I was there for the first early ones like the Sengoku Jedai, Sun Yat-sen, and the Punic War. Man has time flown.
Heck, you could make a series on just the ingredients of beer. For example, the rise of hops over gruit was probably the first example of mass production destroying cottage industries. Before the widespread cultivation of hops, beers were flavored with gruit - mixtures of sweet and bitter herbs taken from local forests. Monasteries in particular would have forest lands set aside so that they would have access to these herbs for their brewing needs. The interesting thing is with gruit, there's literally infinite combinations of flavor profiles, and each and every local brew truly was unique - that whole fantasy trope of adventurers getting into arguments about whose town has the best beer actually was a thing in medieval times. So why did hops win in the end? Part of the reason is taxes - gruits were effectively patented and owned by monasteries, and as towns grew larger and more taverns appeared the monasteries would continue to charge church taxes for anyone using their gruit recipes. The gruit taxes did not apply to hops, so over time because hops were cheaper brewers came to use them more and more. Hops are also easier to grow at scale - instead of relying on finding herbs out in a forest, you can simply grow the hops on trellises in your garden. The final nail in the coffin was the fact that hops are a preservative - and just as we over-salt our foods today to extend their shelf life, late medieval brewers switched to hops so that they could store their beer for longer before it turned. In the end, increasing profits for brewers and the bottom line won out over gruit recipes that were centuries old, and today we can only speculate what portions of herbs went into a typical gruit. What we do know is that while the switch was happening, it seems almost universal that beer enjoyers preferred the flavors of gruit beers over hopped beers, and they bemoaned the dying art of making a good gruit. We may have given up a superior flavor of beer all for a bit longer shelf life and a slightly higher profit for brewers.
I work at a Brewery and Liquor store in Alberta. This could easily be the biggest topic you covered.
Series like this are really cool. I hope in the future we can see more series focused on the history of goods and crops like this.
They have done Writing, Coffee, and now beer, what other things in that vein do you look forward to them covering?
@Timothy Carney
Colombian food exchange where potato, tomato, maize, cocoa among others came to Europe and corn, rice, coffee and many animals to Americans. It would be pretty huge topic (and hogs were actually covered already in one of episode). Potatoes expecially were crucial in Europe (and the Irish famine series shows that) and there are all the changes in cuisine like Italy expecially.
The writing series wasn’t quite done, they stopped at Greek letters and didn’t discuss things like Latin alphabet, Arabic writing or Chinese letters. And it could continue to how paper snd printing press
were made. And history of numbers and math could be similar series.
@@timothycarney9652 how about chocolate?
@@mestre12 I thought that was already on the schedule- Rob did a bit in a lies episode with some chocolate cereal to forshadow it and everything- was it just a voting option and not a certainty?
@@timothycarney9652 domestication of animals perhaps?
Fun fact the oldest still existing companies in Europe are all breweries.
Business comes, business goes, beer stays.
What about that medieval apothecary shop in Riga?
@Aditya Chavarkar i doubt beretta is around since the year 1000 ad
@Aditya Chavarkar no berratta is from around 1500 and some of the oldest companies in Europe were founded before 1000
@@talknight2 yeah I worded it wrong it should have been some of the oldest companies.
I love your guys, I think we all really needed that kind of content right now.
Agreed! We were very excited to be doing this series!
I'm seriously looking forward to the rest of this series! Thanks Extra History! 😊
You're VERY welcome!
I love you guys. The topics, the way to present it. It's always amazing.
And now, you even talk about the most important topic of all: Beer, the foundation of civilizations ;)
Can't WAIT for the rest of this series!!
SAME!!!!
Kratos: Finally, a story worth hearing
(But seriously you guys just stumbled on a can of worms here cause of the deep history of beer, but I'm glad to see this episode since I'm a home brewer)
Actually, the current consensus is that beer precided bread when grule was accidentally allowed to ferment.
Ah two of my favorite things, Beer and History.
This is why I love your channel with your guys honesty and know when to get serious and when to have a laugh
*gets sloshed*
*goes on youtube*
*sees the episode about history of beer*
Well, that checks out 😂👌 also, Ctulhu sipping beer is the official highlight of my month
I've waited for this for so long! Nice!
lmao the no maidens part at the sponsorship part got me laughing
First coffee now alcohol. Two of my favorite things! I actually once read an archaeology article that hypothesized that neolithic people in Scotland developed their agriculture for the primary purpose of producing greater amounts of alcohol.
Yes, prehistoric Scots may have taken up agriculture so they could get drunk.
Alcohol was also partially responsible for the conversion of the Baltics to the Byzantine Greek orthodox christianity. Supposedly Vladimir the Great chose Greek Orthodoxy over Islam because Islam prohibited alcohol, stating that "Drink is the joy of all Rus".
I'm so excited for this series
Homer Simpson: "To alcohol! The cause of... and solution to... all of life's problems."
SO EXCITED FOR THIS SERIES
Great video to see being a homebrewer after a succesfull brewday!
I just brewed a batch yesterday, kegged my previous batch today, and found this video when I was done.
Thanks for watching and may your homebrew be deliciously amazing!
This was awesome!
I love how excited you are in this episode
Beer gives me childhood Christmas nostalgia no matter how old I get 🥰
Thank you for the video.
I love the people who makes these series because this makes up most of what I am going to talk about when Im with my friends
Cracked open a cold one for this...it's going to be a good series
Nice!
Ooo looking forward to the series! Should really add that the 'beer' they were drinking to replace water in towns and cities did not have the alcohol level that we have today, it was much more watered down.
This was what I was waiting for
Fascinating stuff 👍
Cool subject & I LOVE the sound of the campaign world :D
Awesome, I am so looking forward to the part of the beer story that creates what we now believe to be the stereotype of witch.
Finally the history of my favorite drink!
Yes. The water of life. I've been waiting for this.
Who knew beer had such an influence in human history?? I never did. And now I'm thankful for EC for making this series. Thank you EC!!!
I mean similar thing could have been made of bread or agriculture in general, but I guess beer is more fun.
I can’t wait to learn more!
I like it when they explain the history of many mundane things.
Took an athropology class in college on alcohol. Professor liked to say, "Everyone figured out three things; fire, tools, and beer."
i loved this
As a Sumerologist, it is wonderful to see such a succinct and accurate summary of the history of ancient Sumer and Mesopotamia. Bravo!!!
"The pots that make the beer good" sounds like something I'd come up with while plastered.......wait a minute
Most recent archeological evidence I have seen actually suggests that beer came before bread.
This will be an interesting one
What a refreshing topic, cheers!
This was the history lesson I needed when I was in school.
Wow didn't know that there was so much history of beer
Watching this while enjoying a cold one. Prost!
Oddly enough, I'm enjoying a beer as I watch this. Cheers!
the conditions of a society were gradually improving. As part of these changes, it was believed, societies experienced different stages: savagery, barbarism and, finally, civilization. Civilization, Palaeolithic and Mesolithic hunter-gatherer communities were considered part of the savagery stage, Neolithic and Bronze Age farmers as part of the barbarism stage, and finally Bronze Age urban communities (particularly those in the Near East)
When I was in college one of the favored drinking place was called Ninkasi. The kind of place you go with friends to drink a beer (singular) then the beer happens to be a gallon.
hope you make an episode on koji too, it's just as fascinating as yeast
I remember my professor telling us in a lecture that the biggest difference between the primates related to us and humans is the ability to digest fermented foods and alcohol, and that this mutation of one gene is the reason that civilization exists.
I love beer, it's in my top 2. Now we need a series on the other one. WINE!
Enjoy my beer and watching this video.
Hope i get home safe the road seems weird this night.
I'm ready for beer trivia!
As an avid craft beer fan I'm just soooo happy to see this series to exist. Just waiting till the episode about the conquering of India because it was the origin of my favorite style the IPA
WHOOO! Yeah baby thats what i've been waiting for thats what it's all about! WHOO!
First coffee now beer?! Extra History out here hitting all the essentials now!
I wanted to brew my own Beer an now you make this Video and now i want to do it Even more.
Beer and Extra History doing a lesson on beer!? I’m so flattered, you’re spoiling me.
Etymologically, the word civilization relates to the Latin term civitas, or 'city', which is why it sometimes refers to urban state-level societies, setting aside the nomadic people who lack a permanent settlement and those who live in settlements that are not considered urban or do not have a state-level organization. Sometimes it can be used as a label for human societies which have attained a specific degree of complexity.
Finally one of my favorite channels speaking my language.