Informative Speech
Brewing Beer

Creative introduction:
Do you know beer, I know many of you here may or may not….. now I don’t mean in the sense that you go to the bar and say “I’ll have a beer”. What I am talking about is history beer.
The first question to answer about beer is what is it. Well the definition of beer in Webster’s dictionary is:
Beer: an alcoholic drink made from yeast-fermented malt, flavored with hops.
To me beer is like finding a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, thus why I keep my girlish figure….in short it is natures greatest gift
Beer in an alcoholic drink brewed from malted barley, hops, yeast and water through fermentation. The main four ingredients here are like platform for beer, kind of like a canvas is to a painting. Now many other ingredients can be added to create different styles and flavors, such as maize, wheat, and even pineapple.
But enough about the ingredients I want to talk about the history.

Body:
- How old is beer o The exact creation of beer is unknown though I am pretty sure that my ancestors made it in a hut. Beer is thought to be around 12,000 years old and may have been discovered by hunter-gather tribes of the agrarian civilizations that may have discovered fermentation due to the crops they yielded. o The oldest recorded documentation of brewing was the Sumerians over 6,000 years ago. o Hymn to Ninkasi
- History of beer o Beer has been noted throughout history and even worshiped….I know I do….I have a small shrine that I pray to and it gives me beer…Now I have to buy it, open it, and pour it but none the less. o One of the many gods the Sumerian people worshipped was Ninkasi, an ode to the Sumerian goddess of beer. o Ancient Egyptians drank beer know as Tutankhamun Ale. The presents of beer is even mentioned in the Epic of Gilgamesh o Greeks and Romans were versed in the knowledge of