Beer, its importance in ancient Egypt

Beer, its importance in ancient Egypt.

1.           Beer through ancient Egyptian culture has always played an important role.

• During the reign of the pharaohs, this drink was considered a food and not an alcoholic beverage, as we currently conceive it. Its invention is attributed to none other than Osiris, the son of Nut, Lord of Abydos and Busiris, god and judge of the dead, being therefore the spirit of cereals, which made them germinate and regenerate annually in the mud of the Nile.
• Today you can see many documents that tell us about the different types and qualities of beer, the oldest being that of the Pyramid of Unas, of the V Dynasty, that is, more than 4,500 years ago.
• In it we find the so-called “tnm”, but throughout the development of the next twenty-five Dynasties described by the priest Manetón, reviews of up to seventeen types of beer have been found and it is believed that more classes may have existed.
• There were thick beers, milkshakes, strong, made with barley from Upper or Lower Egypt, sweet, salty, with dates, among many others.