Beer Through the Ages

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Over the past nine millennia, people have made beer out of rice, berries, barley, wheat, hops, corn, honey, and even bananas. Join us on Footnoting History as we skim over the evolving and fascinating history of beer from its origins straight into the modern period.

Host: Samantha

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Further Reading

John Arthur, “Beer through the Ages: The Role of Beer in Shaping Our Past and Current Worlds,” Anthropology Now 6:2 (2014): 1-11.

Judith Bennett, Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women’s Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600, Oxford University Press, (1999).

Robert Braidwood et. al, “Symposium: Did Man Once Live by Beer Alone,” American Anthropologist 55:4 (1956):515-526.

Michael Homan, “Beer and Its Drinkers: An Ancient Near Eastern Love Story,” Near Eastern Archaeology 67:2 (2004): 84-94.

James Scott, Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States, Yale University Press, (2017).

Richard Unger, Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, University of Pennsylvania Press, (2007).
 
Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin Macleod (www.incompetech.com)