5 significant advances of humanity and beer?

Before moving on to the article we would like to remind you that we have launched a YouTube channel and that we would be very happy if you subscribed to watch our videos, you can click here–> YouTube Lifestyle

Did you know that Is beer one of the oldest drinks made by humans? And who doesn't like a good beer on a day of intense heat? Is there anything more refreshing than feeling its icy foam and notice the slight dizziness of happiness?

Yes, we like beer, and as we like it so much we realized that some of the most significant human inventions could Owing to it, in large or in part.Share us to see what it is about.

Agriculture

Agriculture is a milestone in human history, which allowed us to move from nomadic peoples to established villages.The food no longer had to be chased (hunted, caught) but only sown and harvested.

5 significant advances of humanity and beer?

We tell you at the beginning that beer is the oldest drink.Imagine that the ancient Sumerian nomads, between 9000 and 7000 BC, they began their barley plantations in the Mesopotamia region.

It was always believed that the planting of this grain was for the production of bread , but recent studies have thrown lights that give a totally different twist to the use of barley: residues of this were found in old vessels, indicating that they drank some drink made with barley...

Writing

Another of the most important technologies that human beings have invented and mastered.Before and after writing means pre-history and History .Well, beer is also involved in this, since the Sumerians who planted and harvested it, carved pictograms on clay .Alli recorded and recorded commercial transactions, but also recipes of beer!

Stephen Tinney , a specialist in ancient texts at the University of Pennsylvania, discovered that more than 160 cuneiform writing symbols were associated with beer .

5 significant advances of humanity and beer?

Cuneiform writing

And they needed to record the production of the drink, including wheat beer, so there are many tablets alluding to the delicious liquid.

Obviously we cannot categorically state that beer would have a total influence on the invention of writing, but if it is amazing to see that in remote times it was necessary to record at least how it was made.And they used the new invention, writing , to do so.

Pasteurization

Did you know that it was beer (and not milk) that allowed Louis Pasteur to lay the foundations of the modern microbiology and the discovery that heating the liquid at a certain temperature killed bacteria?

5 significant advances of humanity and beer?

Luis Pasteur

In 1876 Louis Pasteur wrote Etudes sur la biere ( Studies on beer ), where I put his research, how he had worked as a consultant in some Breweries, he wanted to know why the beer became bitter.He analyzed the yeast cells and noticed the presence of microorganisms that until then were not known, the bacteria .

I showed that they were responsible for the bad smell of beer and that, through the method called, obviously, pasteurization , the bacteria died.The temperature should be between 65 and 70º Celsius, for a certain time, for liquids to be considered pasteurized.

Refrigeration

Because you didn't know that beer was only manufactured and sold in the cold months .Inclusive, for the maturation process, tons of natural ice were required to be transported to underground cellars because there was little thermal variation in these, since specific temperatures were needed.

5 significant advances of humanity and beer?

One of the first refrigerators

All this turned the drink very expensive.At that time, the Irish brewer Guinness contracted the engineer Carl von Linde to develop an artificial cooling system , which in the first instance It was extremely positive to cool the beer while it was being produced.

It was economized in the transport of the ice blocks, and it was then possible to sell the beer always cold, even if it was hot.

The refrigeration system not only served to make beer all year round, but also meant a breakthrough in terms of maintenance and preservation of food worldwide.

Ph scale

Nowadays it is very common to see on the labels of any product “keep the natural Ph”, or “with natural Ph”.The Ph is the potential of hydrogen ions , or in other words, the amount of hydrogen ions present in the proteins.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the German brewer Carlsberg had a big problem to define how acid the beer they produced was, and used a scientific terminology: "very acidic", "good" or "basic" to indicate acidity levels.

To end this, the Chemical Danish Soren Sorensen developed the hydrogenation potential scale or Ph.While working in the brewery's laboratory, Sorensen investigated the effect of ion concentration on proteins, and saw that the more acid it is A drink has a greater amount of hydrogen ions.

5 significant advances of humanity and beer?

Soren Sorensen

This model, after few revisions, was used worldwide, and is now essential for to any chemical procedure.

As you have seen, beer has often played a leading role in several of the most important inventions of the human species.

Did you like the article? ? Remember that you can also read about other inventions important to humanity.

Images: United Nations Photo , Romanus_too

Comments

Do you only see 1 point? There are 12! More optical illusions and their explanation

At Lifestyle we love the optical illusions and its scientific explanations.On other occasions we have talked about the incredible Troxler effect and other optical illusions that have become viral.This time we bring you this panel that hides 12 points at the intersections , but we are unable to see all at once.Do you only see 1 point? There are 12! Here you have more optical illusions and their explanation. Do you only see 1 point? There are 12! More optical illusions and their explanation This image that was actually made public in 2000 by the magazine «Perception» has gone viral in a few days by sharing it on its Facebook the Japanese psychologist Akiyoshi Kitaoka. It is impossible to see all twelve points at once .If you look at a section, you may see 4 or 5 points in the drawing, but the twelve is Impossible.According to experts, this phenomenon is due to the way our peripheral vision acts.When we focus our eyes on something that is outside the field of vision, it is ...

Harvard presents 4 ways for your children to be kind

One of the things that undoubtedly worries us as parents is the education of our children .While there has been some progress in educating them in greater freedom and love, it is also true that one more formation Focused on success and personal happiness, or on achieving good grades, it has led to the emergence of a more selfish and less supportive generation . Somehow, get that our children are also good people is a challenge, because they must achieve for themselves-helped and guided by us, of course-the delicate balance between the "I" and the collective, between training as conscious individuals and as beings that they are part of a group, of a society. But according to a study carried out by the Harvard School of Education, a project known as Making Caring Common where they interviewed 10,000 students (primary and secondary school) ), most young people think it is more important and he personal success and his own happiness that caring and caring for others, being...

Could there be a zombie virus? Create undead? Find it out!

We all know what zombies are; those horrible undead who wander aimlessly looking for food...brains, meat...But, could there really be a zombie virus? A virus capable of creating zombies? Find out! Could there be a zombie virus? Create undead? Find out! Samita Andreasky, a virologist from the University of Miami, met with National Geographic to discuss the progress of her work called “the truth about zombies.” The doctor says that although It is extremely difficult to produce a zombie virus, it could happen. The zombie virus would be a combination of the rabies virus with others like the flu and Ebola, among many others .The first two would allow the disease to be transmitted through the air, if that of rabies is mixed with that of measles it can cause personality changes, with that of encephalitis it would produce aggressiveness and very high fevers, and if we add the ebola we would have infected who bleed in spurts, as shown in the series and movies. Getting all these co...

Why do you sometimes have memory gaps after drinking alcohol?

Hello Lifestyle ! Before reading the article we would like you to know a new way to discover our curious world, through Youtube ! We have a channel that we would love to be a part of.You can subscribe and meet him here-> YouTube Lifestyle! At least once in a lifetime, we've all drunk so much that, the next day we will remember almost nothing.The photographs and stories that the friends tell will remain, but in the end we will not know why we have those memory gaps after drinking alcohol.In Lifestyle we explain the reason. Why do you sometimes have memory gaps after drinking alcohol? Some time ago we told you where the memory is located, and that it is divided into two: short and long term.The immediate memories are of short term, but our brain chooses which ones to keep in the long term memory. When we consume large amounts of alcoholic beverages, short term memory does not work in the same way as being sober. Therefore, the brain does not process information correc...

Is it true that dogs can smell diseases?

There are many studies about this suspicion.Can a dog smell for example that we are about to suffer an epilepsy attack? Or what is going to lower our sugar level? It may surprise you, but it seems that it is so.Our beloved pets rise once more like those great friends who at any time, can save our lives. Let's see now some of the diseases that dogs can detect: Narcolepsy Narcolepsy is the disease of sleep.A small part of the population suffers, and It occurs in people who, when they suffer or experience an emotion, instantly fall asleep.The Institute for Investigation of Sleep Disorders , tells us that patients who suffer from it have a smell Especially surprisingly enough, it has been shown that dogs trained for detecting police narcotics are the first to identify when a person is about to suffer a narcolepsy attack. Chlostridium difficile A strange name for a type of bacteria capable of causing a serious infection, with significant diarrhea capable of leaving us...

Curiosities about the oldest carnival in the world: Venice

Much of the world celebrates the carnival , a movable date party that probably originates in pagan festivities in honor of Bacchus , the saturnals and lupercals Roman , and even before, in Egypt, in the celebrations to the god Apis .There are historians who indicated that there were similar parties in the ancient Sumerian ., especially in the saturnals, masks began to be used for festive purposes, hence in the carnival we all dress up. They are movable because they are celebrated between February and March, and they are always Monday and Tuesday, because they are just before Ash Wednesday that inaugurates the beginning of Christian Lent , so they are more associated with countries of Catholic tradition . They are characterized by the joy in the streets, costumes, parades and parades , where certain excesses and uncontrolled, including eating meat (because during Lent you had to make strict fasting where meat was practically prohibited). In fact, the first etymology of ...

Are cats dangerous to the health of a pregnant woman?

Cats are one of the best known transmitters of toxoplasmosis , a disease that can be very dangerous for a pregnant woman.However, taking appropriate precautions, If you have a cat at home, it should not represent a greater danger. What is toxoplasmosis? Toxoplasmosis is an infectious disease caused by an intracellular parasite, the consequences can range from mild reactions to cause congenital malformations and even death in the case of fetuses.It is important to remember that toxoplasmosis it is transmitted through the mother's bloodstream to the baby. The chances of a woman infected with toxoplasmosis transmitting the disease to her baby increase depending on the period of pregnancy you are in.If the woman contracts the disease in the first trimester the fetus has a 15% chance of becoming infected; if it occurs in the second trimester the odds increase to 30% and if it is in the third trimester there is up to 60% chance that the baby will also get the di...

An infallible method to boost productivity: the arrow method

There is a 99% probability that if you are here to find out what is the arrow method , the infallible strategy to boost the productivity of which we refer in the headline of this article, Maybe it's because the idea of doing an update on how you manage every day is something you've been seriously considering. Maybe because the more the week progresses, instead of feeling as light as a pen because Saturday and Sunday are getting closer and, in theory, the amount of work should be reduced as we approach the end of the week, the reality is that between Thursday and Friday is the more the tasks seem to never end Does any of this sound familiar? Breathe! Applying this simple strategy will improve your performance remarkably. The arrow method to optimize productivity Nicholas Sonnenberg has shared a 'secret' that you will later appreciate.Sonnenberg programs most of business meetings at the beginning of the week, preferably on Mondays and Tuesdays. Perhaps these a...

5 things that can end a friendship, don't let it happen to you!

What greater gift than having good friends? Those people who are with you to make you laugh, support you in difficult situations and do crazy things that you will remember forever. Definitely having friends is very important, and it doesn't matter without being few, with them being true friendships is enough. Have you ever lost an important friendship without knowing the reasons? Today we show you 5 things that can end a friendship, pay attention because they can be happening without you noticing! 5 things that can end a friendship, don't let it happen to you! Lack of reciprocity They say we have to give to receive, sometimes we immerse ourselves a lot and forget the Too much. Although in a friendship you don't give and receive 100% all the time, it is important that your friends know that you care about them and that they are important in your life, (they must show you the same, of course) Show it! If there is no reciprocity in a relationship, the other...

What is pop art?

It all sounds to us when they talk to us about “Pop” and we tend to relate it to pop music, however it was an important artistic movement of the twentieth century, a kind of modern art.Do you want to know more about the pop art ? Continue reading the following article and leave us your opinions on this topic. Pop art or better known as the " Pop art " is a related movement with the art that was born in the late fifties.The cities of London, in England and New York in the United States, are considered the most important cradles of pop art. The work of Andy Warhol The American artist Andy Warhol was an avant-garde at the time when he placed himself with his work as one of the main references of this movement.Through it he tried to eliminate from the work of art any sign of craftsmanship, that's why most of his works are made from photographs projected on the canvas.One of his most famous paintings is the one that portrays Marilyn Monroe , later converted into an...

Lifestyle Libre

Search This Blog