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Origin And History of Beer And Brewing From Prehistoric Times to the Beginning of Brewing Science And Technology (Original 1911 Edition)

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Origin And History of Beer And Brewing From Prehistoric Times to the Beginning of Brewing Science And Technology (Original 1911 Edition)
By J. P. Arnold

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Publisher: Alumni Association of the Wahl-Henius Institute of Fermentology, 1911.
Hard Cover, 411 pages, 7.50 x 10.25.
Item #1331

Here is a landmark book published in 1911 by the Alumni Association of the world-famous Chicago brewing school, the Wahl-Henius Institute of Fermentology. Written by early brewing scholar John P. Arnold, the 411-page book is a comprehensive look at the origins of beer throughout the world. Includes illustrations and wood-cuts throughout. For beer history buffs, this book is simply an indispensable resource. Truly one of the cornerstone works on brewing history.

This is an original 1911 First Edition copy, complete with stylish Art Nouveau stamped cover and spine, and signed by the author. See pic.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1: Man, Religion and Intoxicants
   Introduction
   The Spiritual World of Prehistoric and Early Mankind
   Worship and Sacrificial Cult
   Man and Gods
   Incantations, Ceremonial Dances, Incense
   Narcotics
   Intoxicating Beverages
   Ancient Chinese
   Ancient Aryans
   The Soma-Cult
   Summary and Conclusion

Chapter 2: Asia and Africa
   Oriental and African Races
   The Ancients Aryans
   Ancient China
   Babylonia and Assyria
   Egypt
   Beer the National Egyptian Beverage
   Beer in Religious Worship
   Beer of the Fellahin
   Papyrus Zosimus
   Brewing Methods
   The Egyptian Beers
   Ethiopia
   African Races
   Hebrews
   Armenia
   Phrygia

Chapter 3: Prehistoric and Ancient Europe
   Thracians
   Greeks
   Illyrians
   Pannonians
   Paeonians
   Scythians
   Romans
   Kelts
   Gaul
   Hispania
   Britain
   Keltic Names for Beer and Malt
   Germania
   Character and Customs of the Germanics
   Religion and Mythology
   Beer in the Mythological Heaven of the Germanic Norse
   The Slavs

Chapter 4: Medieval and Modern Europe
   Beer and Brewing in Germany
   The Period of Migrations
   Beginning of the Christian Era
   Beer and Brewing in the Beginning of Christianization
   Brewing in the Convents
   Northern Convivial Feasts and Banquets
   Introduction of Hops
   Gruit Contra Hops
   Origin of Hops and Hopped Beers
   Brewing in the Towns
   Rise and Decline of the Brewing Industry in the Chief Hansa Towns
   Brewing in the Leading Towns of Southern Germany
   Brewing Conditions in Prussia in the 17th and 18th Century
   Beer and Brewing in Austria
   Brewing in Bohemia
   Vienna
   The Stein-Beer of Carinthia
   Gambrinus
   Beer and Brewing in England
   Ale, Beer and Mead
   The Anglo-Saxon Beor
   Beowulf
   Taxes and Tributes
   Brewing and Malting
   Treatise of Walter Biblesworth
   Statues of the Brewers of Paris
   Domestic Brewing
   When were hops first used in England?
   Hops in the 8th Century
   Hop-Substitutes
   Beer and Hops
   Hops Prohibited for Ale
   Hop Culture

Chapter 5: United States
   Discovery and Settlement
   Brewing in the Different Colonies
   Brewing Industry After the Adoption of the Constitution
   Brewing Practice at the End of the 18th Century


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