Beer originated 6,000 years ago B.C. with the Sumerians, who lived in Mesopotamia, and who made a primitive beer from barley malt, although it did not have a rich foam back then.
Around 3,000 B.C., the Semites around Persia learned to make beer, and they carved the method of making it on boards and dedicated them to the goddess of agriculture. In 2225 B.C., beer was popularized among the ancient Babylonians, who served it to their guests.
Then the ancient Egyptians and ancient Babylonians noticed the medicinal value of beer and used it to make medicines. The Greeks, too, loved beer, and they learned how to brew it from the Egyptians.
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Beer was imported into China at the end of the 19th century. At that time, the development of China's beer industry is slow, not widely distributed, the output is not big. 1949, China's beer industry develops faster, and gradually get rid of the backwardness of the raw materials rely on imports. 1979 production reached 510l, 1986 production reached 4000l. China's beer began to enter the international market in 1954, when the export of only 0.3l, in 1980 has soared to 26l.
In the national popularity is still relatively low due to the serious oversupply contradiction persists, at present China's beer industry is the domestic beverage market is one of the most competitive industry.
With the increasing degree of competition in the beer market, in order to be able to more quickly and effectively realize the final consumption, more and more beer companies in the marketing operation are focusing on the terminal, the terminal of the increasingly fierce battle, the mid-range and high-end beer market is even more so.
In addition to the low-grade stalls, stalls, restaurants, etc., high-end beer has become a catering, entertainment terminal market consumption of the mainstream, especially in the economic level of better large and medium-sized cities, high-grade beer value-added, to open up the market for medium and high-end beer is to improve the economic benefits of the enterprise is an important way to the higher level of consumption in the urban market, the market capacity of medium- and high-grade beer continues to expand, the prospects are very broad.
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