Historically hops, yeast, malted barley, and water have all played the greatest and most important role in society. For almost 8000 years these ingredients have been mixed and have been appreciated by all classes of society in almost all civilizations.         The old cliche "accident is the mother of invention" is a phrase that definitely holds true in the world of beer. The discovery was made way back when the Mediterranean region was the seat of civilization …showed first 75 words of 1956 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1956 total…Recently Becks beer has done some brewing experiments aboard the space shuttle to study zero gravity brewing. So you can bet that by the time we take our vacation to the moon we will have a beer waiting for us there.         Beer has been through a lot in its over 8000 years on this earth, and by the looks of the beer market it may continue to be one of the oldest beverages in the world.