Let's make it clear from the outset that this is more of a discovery, the result of chance and not the desire to create a new drink!

So, this "invention" dates back 8,000 years to Mesopotamia, a region essentially corresponding to Iraq. If a clay tablet discovered in Uruk is to be believed, it may have been an "accident".

The Sumerians mainly ate hard bread, which they then stored. Produced with cereals, particularly barley, these wafers had to be softened in order to be eaten with the meals of these Mesopotamians. So they had to be soaked in water for a few moments. By a happy coincidence, a Sumerian would have left his bread for longer. Under the effect of fermentation and natural yeasts, this liquid would then have been transformed into beer.

Note that a term often used refers to beer with the term sikaru. This means "liquid bread" in Akkadian (the language spoken in this Asian region).

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