HISTORY OF BEER IN CROATIA

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HISTORY OF BEER IN CROATIA

• Robert Skenderovic
• Croatian Institute for History, Zagreb
• Visnjan, A.D. 2003.

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History of beer consumption as a scientific
problem!?
History in the 19th century history of
politics, wars and diplomacy History in the 20th
century looking for new historical
problems French historians in 1950s developed
SOCIAL HISTORY (demographic history, everyday
life history, womens history, history of
litteracy)
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Ancient Time

• The history of beer actually begins before
  history began.

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Ancient Egipt

• By 4000 B.C., the Babylonians were brewing at
  least sixteen varieties of beer.
• Ancient Egiptians also knew how to brew a beer.

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STEPS OF MAKING BEER
The brewing process is divided into six stages
grinding, mashing, boiling, cooling, fermenting
and racking. The malt is cleaned and crushed, the
ground malt called "grist" is mixed with hot
water in a vessel called a "mash tun", then this
is allowed to stand, the process is called
mashing. Subsequently the resulting liquid, now
called "wort" is run into coppers where it is
boiled with hops. The hopped wort is then cooled
and dropped into fermenting vessels, and mixed
with yeast, this process lasts about five or six
days. At the end of fermentation the product now
called beer is run into casks, this is known as
racking
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MIDDLE AGES
Beer almost certainly arrived to Europe (and
Croatia) by the Neolithic period. Charles the
Great (Charlemagne, 800.-814.) brought a French
brewer from Normandy to his brewery in Westphalia
to teach his German subjects how to make a beer
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HOP
9th century the first reference to hops in
England, Czeh Republik and Germany
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REINHEITGEBOT
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SORTS OF BEER
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BEER CONSUMPTION IN CROATIA

• known from the Neolithic period, but...
• Croatia is a land of WINE
• Untill the end of 18th century beer was just a
  temporary substitute for wine in the continental
  part of Croatia

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HABSBURG -OTTOMAN WAR (1683.-1699.)

• -Siege of Vienna 1683.
• -Liberation of Slavonia
• - domination of German Culture in continental
  Croatia during the 18th century

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