Birth of brewing

Archaic beers (beer archaeology) Agriculture and brewing Original combined fermented beverages

First 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 humans

City-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 Mississippi

Early 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 beer

Beer 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 prohibition

Brewery 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 Europe

Future of beer

Beer giants: which beer are we talking about? Summit meeting East ⇔ West Biotechnology and brewery

Tentative conclusions

Reversal of perspectives

3 technical axis

Where does starch come from? Processing the starch

6 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 inventions

Earliest brewery regions in the world

List of earliest brewing areas Beer invented by each brewing basin? Evolution of the brewing regions Original technical core

Ancient 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

Glossary of beer brewing

Tribute to Philippe Voluer

The Munkoyo beer, a very special African beer

The adventure of the munkoyo beer told by Dany Griffon. Download Dany Griffon's thesis about the munkoyo beer

Brewing ratios in Antiquity

Brewing ratios of the Mesopotamian system Brewing ratios of the Egyptian system Beer brewing ratios of the Indian system Brewing ratios of a Chinese system

Beerology - Zythology

The Carolingian beer brewing

Traditional Bhutanese beers

African beers of the Chad basin

Malt and beer against scurvy

Middle-East medieval beers