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The brewing of beer is an ancient craft, believed by many archeologists to be over 10,000 years old. The first domesticated grains were wheat and barley, with archeological evidence of these crops first being grown in Mesopotamia around 7000 BC. Beer making, as it depends primarily on these grains, surely made its entrance to human history shortly after the domestication of these important food crops. The first beer could have been accidentally produced. Stored grain, becoming wet, could have fermented naturally, producing beer. And the resulting brew undoubtedly both smelled and looked good to someone, who tasted it, and experienced the first hangover in history.

Modern brewing involves many steps in the transformation of grain, hops, yeast, and water into the sparkling, invigorating beverage we call beer. This page is a greatly simplified outline of the steps a commercial brewing company uses to make beer

If you read the previous article, you can see that traditional beer making is a very intricate process! If you are interested in making beer, and are afraid that the process is way too complicated, don’t despair. Modern technology has come to the rescue with a variety of new products, which take the complexity out of the home beer making process.

It is easiest to begin with a starter kit. The kit will contain all the necessary items needed to brew your first batch of beer, except, of course, the water.

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