You may have heard people say that beer has been around as long as human civilization. Is this an exaggeration? A little bit but not as much as you might think. We know for sure that the ancient Mesopotamians were drinking beer around 3000 BC because they left behind many cuneiform tablets about beer and even some preserved beer residue. But we have also found evidence that the drink is much older and that beer like many other great discoveries was created by accident.
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The exact origins of beer can be a bit hazy like looking at ancient history through beer goggles—we have no way to identify the very first beer brewed. But the most common theory among historians is that it originated during a bread-baking procedure gone wrong. The grain mixture was left outside perhaps during a rainstorm and the maker returned to find it fermenting (probably from exposure to wild yeasts or bacteria). The result was soupy but at some point people drank some and felt a buzz. To borrow an old cliché the rest is history.
This first brewing was likely done by an ancient people called the Sumerians who lived in southern Mesopotamia and who are credited with many important inventions such as measuring time in hours and days inventing schools and writing influential stories such as the Epic of Gilgamesh. Beer is actually mentioned in Gilgamesh which was written around 2000 BCE: When the hero Gilgamesh tries to civilize the wild Enkidu he does so by giving him bread and beer.
After that first batch of intoxicating grains Mesopotamians regularly drank beer. Beer’s original purpose was for ceremonies but it crops up again and again in ancient art poetry and songs from the region. Unlike modern beer it was much thicker and not flavored with hops. Instead herbs and fruits were added for flavor.
