Talk:History of beer

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the History of beer article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Archives: 1, 2

Beer Top‑importance

	Beer portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Beer, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Beer, Brewery, and Pub related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.BeerWikipedia:WikiProject BeerTemplate:WikiProject BeerBeer articles
Top	This article has been rated as Top-importance on the project's importance scale.

Food and drink High‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Food and drink, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of food and drink related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Food and drinkWikipedia:WikiProject Food and drinkTemplate:WikiProject Food and drinkFood and drink articles

High

This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

Food and Drink task list:

To edit this page, select here

Here are some tasks you can do for WikiProject Food and drink:

Help bring these Top Importance articles currently B Status or below up to GA status: Agaricus bisporus (i.e. mushroom), Beef, Bread, Curry, Drink, Food, Ham and eggs, Soy sauce, Sushi, Yogurt
Bring these Top Importance articles currently at GA status up to FA status: Beer, French cuisine, Sugar
Bring these High Importance articles currently at GA status up to FA status: Apple, Burger King, Fish
Participate in project-related deletion discussions.
Delete unrelated trivia sections found in articles. Please review WP:Trivia and WP:Handling trivia to learn how to do this.
Add the {{WikiProject Food and drink}} project banner to food and drink related articles and content to help bring them to the attention of members. For a complete list of banners for WikiProject Food and drink and its child projects, select here.
Provide photographs and images for Category:Wikipedia requested images of food
Consider joining this project's Assessment task force. List any project ideas in this section

Note: These lists are transcluded from the project's tasks pages.

"Seems this article is Incorrect"

There is evidence that the first beers were brewed in China. Check out this wikipedia article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_in_China#:~:text=10%20External%20links-,History,on%20small%20and%20individual%20scales.

"History" section

In addition to having a redundant title, the "History" section has an unclear function. Is it meant to summarize the later sections? The lead section is the place for an overview. Perhaps it should be deleted after redistributing any valuable content to other sections?? At present its place before the "Etymology" section disrupts the logical flow of the article, and draws attention away from more substantial material below. Ringbang (talk) 14:59, 9 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Good point. I've made a quick rearrangement, though further editing is needed. SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 14:02, 18 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 3 external links on History of beer. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.ancient.eu/article/223/
Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.breweryhistory.com/journal/archive/121/bh-121-005.htm
Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20091103020852/http://www.merchantduvin.com/pages/2_ale_university/aleu_brew_process.html to http://www.merchantduvin.com/pages/2_ale_university/aleu_brew_process.html

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 09:57, 3 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi everybody, About the history of beer, some sources show evidences of beer making going back to about 10000 BC, just look at that link:

https://www.alcoholproblemsandsolutions.org/history-of-beer-before-christianity-timeline/

Should we talk more precisely about that in the article ?

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on History of beer. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20090709015742/http://www.dreherrt.hu/portal/main.php?heading_id=27&article_id=&language=en to http://www.dreherrt.hu/portal/main.php?heading_id=27&article_id=&language=en

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 01:25, 5 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

the doch rivers

hi, i am a dutchman. i learned that in the medievaltime the riverwater was TO DIRTY to be used... so it was better to brew beer and thus kill the, at that time unknown, germs. the Rhine passes 6 different COUNTRIES, with the Netherlands as last part, so for the dutchman there was, altough plenty water in amounts, FEW FRESH water ... . so thats is a possible reason that Ale is off less intresse in northwest europa as hop changes the taste. like hiding the "molded" taste of many different fermentations. 85.149.83.125 (talk) 22:20, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Contradicition

It would seem the preamble contradicts the Early beers section? I do believe the latter is correct and the preamble not, but I haven't got time to sort it at the moment.--Oskila (talk) 11:00, 15 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Tablet image

Sorry people, but the cuneiform tablet used as first image is upside down; could anyone turn it in the right direction? :) --Lampo5 (talk) 14:31, 5 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]