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In the year 1900, there were about 2,000 independant brewing companies making beer in America. Of those, fewer than twenty remain in business today.

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An Egyptian text of 1600 BC gives 100 medical prescriptions using beer.

 

Commercial beer making was established in 1200 AD in present-day Germany. In 1506, the German Purity Law is issued, specifying that beer ingredients must only be water, barley, wheat and hops. Bottling of beer started in 1605.