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Beer is the most widely consumed alcoholic beverage in the world and is the third most consumed beverage overall (behind water and tea).
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Beer is one of the oldest beverages on earth, dating back to 5000 BC.
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Reinheitsgebot, the German beer purity law, was adopted in 1516 – stating that beer should only contain water, barley, hops, and yeast.
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US President George Washington had his own brewhouse on the grounds of Mount Vernon.
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Germans started using hops in beer in the late 1200s – essentially the star of modern brewing.
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Early beers were brewed almost entirely by women. The first beer “advertisement” is beleieved to be from 4000 BC with an image of a woman holding goblets of beer in each hand carved into a stone tablet.