Beer brewing has dated back to 6,000 BC, when a Babylonian tablet was found with an engraved beer recipe. Other engraved stone tablets were found in buried ancient Sumerians and Mesopotamians ruins, which illustrated recipes and beer being drank with a long gold straw. Beer was originally brewed using grain and water, before they could make bread. The main ingredients for the wort were barley, grain, water, rosemary and thyme, which were all rich with carbohydrates and protein. This made beer one of the best sources of nutrition at the time. In 1,600 BC Egyptians read more...

I recently went on the Samuel Adams Brewery tour in Boston, Massachusetts and had the experience of a lifetime! The history of Samuel Adams and tasting their freshly brewed beer was amazing but being the beer brewing aficionado I am, the best part was seeing their beer brewing process first hand! It was a sight like none other, my dream of being a master beer brewer realized by those that came before me. Of course, they wouldn’t tell us what their recipe was but seeing the read more...

Prohibition was a moonshine brewer’s dream and nightmare back in the late 19th and early 20th century. In the late 1870’s prohibition movements against beer and alcohol in general began appearing in the South. Brewing and selling moonshine was already outlawed before this time because the government received a loss in tax revenues that it would normally get from legally bought liquor whenever moonshine was read more...

The Great Divide Brewery was established in 1994 by the beer aficionado Brian Dunn. Located in Denver Colorado, the brewery has gathered itself quite a following. The Great Divide Brewing Company has become known for their plethora of beer choices and their unique taste. The community has even gone as far as nicknaming this famed liquid they brew as none other than the great divide beer. Any true beer lover will truly appreciate the perfection this brewery puts into their beer. The beers that won the brewery the nick name of the great divide beer range from light read more...