![]() Caesar himself made the first move into Gaul, which is now mostly France, during his Gallic Wars (58 to 51 bc), which he then described in his famous Commentarii. As the Romans ventured across the Alps, around the beginning of the current epoch, to subdue the barbarians to the north, they sent not only legionnaires to do the fighting but also sophisticated scribes to record the events for posterity. The first written evidence of Germanic beer making is actually Roman. The amphora is now in the Bavarian Beer Museum in Kulmbach. An analysis of the traces inside the crock identified the content as a black wheat ale flavored with oak leaves. It was found in 1935 in a burial mound of the so-called Celtic Hallstatt culture near the small northern Bavarian village of Kasendorf, some 7 miles west of Kulmbach. The most conclusive evidence we have for brewing at this time is an earthenware amphora from around 800 bc. Compared with the Stone Age that preceded it, agricultural implements and cooking gear-both essential for raising grain and making beer from it-improved during this period. We do know from archaeological finds that brewing must have been practiced at least by the late Bronze Age, which lasted in Central Europe roughly from 2000 to 700 bc. The origins of German brewing are shrouded in mystery, mostly because the ancient inhabitants of what is now the territory of Germany were illiterate tribesmen who left no written records. ![]() Germany has arguably the oldest continuous brewing culture in the world. ![]()
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