World history
Birth of brewing
Archaic beers (beer archaeology) Agriculture and brewing Original combined fermented beveragesFirst villages, first beer floods !
First granaries, first beer brews Grain surplus and beer Beer and nomads Beer and agrarian rites Magic and fermentation Divine inebriation, drunken humansCity-states and first kingdoms
Grains surplus, beer and political power Elam, Sumer, Akkad Egypt in Old Kingdom Old-babylonian kingdoms Brewing under Shang and Zhou Beer in ancient India Maize beer and Andean kingdoms African kingdoms Amerindian MississippiEarly empires
The Indian empire of the Maurya Beer in the Chinese Han Empire The Roman Empire The Carolingian empire The Mongolian Confederation The Inca empire and maize beerBeer and no-state societies
Beer and religion
Buddhism and abstinence Dao Quest for Immortality Beer and impurety in Judaism Christianity: wine versus beer Islam and prohibitionBrewery and science
Thermometer and control Malting and diastases What is a fermentation? Heat and mechanical Work Measuring the alcohol Shipping and packaging Brew faster, keep longer What is a good beer?Industrial brewery in the 20th
Brewery engineers Brewing processes Diversity of beers New beers, ancient colonies Resilience of traditional beers Craft beer revolution in EuropeFuture of beer
Beer giants: which beer are we talking about? Summit meeting East ⇔ West Biotechnology and breweryTentative conclusions
Reversal of perspectives
Fundamentals
3 technical axis
Where does starch come from? Processing the starch6 ways to brew beer
Pathway no. 1 = Insalivation Pathway no. 2 = Sprouting Pathway no. 3 = Fungi Pathway no. 4 = Amylolytic plants Pathway no. 5 = Over-ripening Pathway no 6 = Sour mash A 7th brewing pathway?A technical definition of beer
Expertise and technology
Humans ⇔ Plants ⇔ Microorganisms Brewing and inventionsEarliest brewery regions in the world
List of earliest brewing areas Beer invented by each brewing basin? Evolution of the brewing regions Original technical coreAncient beers brewing diagrams
Paleo-Babylonian sikaru beer Wheat hekt-beer of ancient Egypt Sudanese merissa from eleusine Burkinabe dolo from sorghum Japanese rice sake Jiu from millet in China Barley chang-beer in Tibet The Peruvian aca from maize Bangchang from barley
Advanced studies