History -- Modern Marvels Brewing

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Studio: A&E Television Networks
Category: DVD

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Sales Rank: 65869

Format: Ntsc
Region: 0
Running Time: 50 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.5

UPC: 883629548630
ASIN: B001CUB97K

Release Date: July 17, 2008
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It's one of the world's oldest and most beloved beverages--revered by Pharaohs and brewed by America's Founding Fathers. Today, brewing the bitter elixir is a multi-billion-dollar global industry. Join us for an invigorating look at brewing's history fromprehistoric times to today's cutting-edge craft breweries, focusing on its gradually evolving technologies and breakthroughs. We'll find the earliest known traces of brewing, which sprang up independently in such far-flung places as ancient Sumeria, China, and Finland; examine the surprising importance that beer held in the daily and ceremonial life of ancient Egypt; and at Delaware's Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, an adventurous anthropologist and a cutting-edge brewer show us the beer they've concocted based on 2,700-year-old DNA found in drinking vessels from the funerary of the legendary King Midas.

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Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars

Somewhat Interesting October 15, 2008
Loyd E. Eskildson (Phoenix, AZ.)
"Brewing" provides a somewhat interesting, though largely repetitive, history of brewing with an emphasis on the U.S.

The Budweiser brewery in St. Louis produces 16 million barrels of beer/year. Barley is soaked in warm water until it begins to germinate, then it is roasted. Etc., etc., until after aging in a storage tank for 21 days its poured into cans, bottles, and kegs.

The earliest evidence of brewing dates back 3,500 years in what now is Iran. Beer became a form of liquid bread, a means of storing grain after harvesting. Eventually brewing spread to Europe where it was also appreciated for being cleaner than water. "Brewing" also identifies a German brewery that has been functioning since 1040, dating back to when the site was also a monastery.

Viewers then receive an overview of the fine points of differences in various beers - lagers, ales, pilsners, etc., as well as the introduction in the U.S. of refrigeration, ice cars, pasteurization, bottles and caps.

In 1880 there were 2,300 breweries in the U.S. Prohibition brought this down to 160. However, after microbreweries (1970s) and home brewers began, we now have 1,400.

"Brewing" ends with coverage of Sam Adams new Utopias 25% alcohol beer - 2X the alcohol level of wine.