Just over 10 years ago, International Beer Day was inaugurated in Santa Cruz as a day-long celebratory event dedicated to the popular brewed drink. Since, worldwide celebrations have taken place in breweries and pubs across the globe with connoisseurs and thirsty individuals gathering to taste and enjoy their favorite beers on the first Friday of the month of August. Now we could brush this event aside as simply another one of those countless ‘International Days’ that seem to pop up all the time, were it not for the fun fact that beer has a history that can be traced back to ancient Egypt. Surveying the kind of information, historical sources as well as the many speculations available about what is considered to be one of the world’s oldest and most popular beverages, it is possible to find countless passages referring to its early presence in Egypt. In fact, with its emergence suggested to date back to the Predynastic period, beer has entered many pages of Egyptian history and evidence of its changing production and consumption patterns over time reveals much about the Egyptian economy, politics and class dynamics. According to…
Tracing the Evolution of Beer in Egypt on International Beer Day
August 2, 2019
