00:00 Beer brewing is a millennia-long tradition that may have started accidentally when moldy bread fermented.

04:50 Beer brewing is an ancient tradition that may have started accidentally with the fermentation of moldy bread, and beer is as old as civilization itself, with the oldest record of brewing dating back 6,000 years to ancient Sumer.

09:35 Beer brewing spread and took hold, especially in Germany, where it has been made since at least 800 BC, and during the medieval age, Christian monks became skilled brewers.

14:20 Beer brewing has a long history, with trappist monks brewing beer for over a thousand years and women being the primary brewers in medieval times, leading to the creation of surnames like "Brewer" and "Brewster" to honor their brewing skills; in the 15th century, Germany implemented a beer purity law that restricted beer ingredients to water, barley, and hops, which is still enforced today; beer brewing in the US began before the country was established, with colonists making beer using corn and the first brewery being set up in New Amsterdam in 1612.

18:54 Craft brewing in the US experienced a renaissance starting in 1976 with the opening of the first American craft brewery, leading to a significant increase in the number of breweries in the country.

23:54 The brewing process involves extracting sugars from grains, usually barley, through mashing, and then fermenting the resulting substance, called wort, with yeast to produce alcohol and CO2.

28:38 Lagers are produced using yeast that survives in cold temperatures, resulting in clean and crisp beer, while lambics are spontaneously fermented using wild yeast, giving them a sour aftertaste.

33:06 There are shipwrecks from 1825 that contain beer, and a microbiologist was able to revive the yeast from one of the shipwrecks to make a porter.

37:49 The Winehenstaffen brewery is the oldest continuously functioning brewery in the world, having opened in 1040, and Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000 year lease on a building in Dublin in 1756 to make Guinness beer.

42:24 The London Brewery of 1814 had a 100,000 gallon tank of ale that exploded, killing nine people, and one man died the next day from alcohol poisoning after drinking the flooded streets of ale.

46:50 An attorney from Kentucky cannot participate in duels due to a requirement in their oath, even though they have experience with jousting and fencing.