The first beer was produced entirely by chance. According to inscriptions on clay tablets discovered in the Uruk region, a Sumerian failed to remove his dry bread from a water container. The inhabitants of this region of Asia were accustomed to making and storing their bread over a long period. As a result, they became very hard and needed to be soaked to be eaten at mealtimes.

This happy oversight was the origin of the first beer. Natural yeasts and fermentation then naturally transformed this water into beer.

This would have been produced around 6000 BC.

The very first name for beer is sikaru. This term from the Akkadian language can be translated as liquid bread, a very telling reference to evoke this creation coming from the greatest of coincidences! This term and this "invention" then spread to other Asian countries.

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