BEER! INGENIOUS INVENTION WITH “FORMULA FOR RAPPROCHEMENT”!

This period, many reasons for “bevy”. May 1st, handball, marathon records, concerts, weddings, birthdays, bun, celebrations, family lunches, social games, everywhere – people with whom you share the same emotion, joke that you two only know. Skopje just waiting for blossom, to get warmer and start gathering in neighborhood friendships, homes, cafes and picnics. In this euphoric, green and playful picture of Skopje, one small detail can be noted everywhere – a beer. We are not a known like drinking beer nation, but we can rejoice with one cup of cold drink in hand. And when you see it that way, we rejoice and complain, we are “hating”, we discuss about life, but always together and always with one cup of beer in our hands. OK! At school we learned about Newton’s laws, about Darwin’s theories, about the theory of relativity, radio waves and the electricity of Tesla, about Freud, Picasso, Dali, Byron, Goethe … And to whom did it go to create so ingenious invention with a formula for rapprochement?

Beer history begins much earlier than these inventions.

Old legends dating back 7,000 years ago say like this: Once upon a time, people made bread in the open sky, when suddenly a great storm suddenly began. People fleeing the storm left the dough and when they returned after two days they saw fermented, dense liquid. They tested the fluid and concluded that it was a great refreshing drink. But the first records where beer is mentioned and the first beer recipe found in literature – they believed it or not! In Mesopotamia (ancient Iraq), the early proof of beer is the 3900-year-old Sumerian song in honor of Ninkasi, the goddess of beer, which contains the oldest surviving beer recipe, describing the production of beer from barley, through bread. The second written document is the ep “Gilgamesh” where beer is not a secret potion for immortality, but an elder Gilgamesh gives it to the wild friend Enkidu.

For the civilizations before our era, beer was often considered a healthier and safer way of fluid intake than drinking water from the rivers. Beers often drank with long straws that helped filter the thick matter. In the old records, it was stated that at that time women and priests were brewing the beer, and even included in the priestly rituals. In Egypt, beer was essential for building the Great Pyramid in Giza, because each worker was given 5 liters of beer during working hours, to maintain the vitality and freshness of the body. Much later, in the Middle Ages in Europe with the discovery and addition of hops, beer begins to get the taste that is close to today’s beer. Then the fermentation in the process of creating the beer came by accident after the beer stock was left in a cool and dark place. Then it begins to turn from domestic production to mass.

In that period in Europe, beer plays a key role during the plague, and even the water was infected. In the process of making beer, the water is boil and thus again clean and healthy, so those who drank beer at that time managed to save and survive.

Naturally, the mass production produced its bloom with the advent of industrialization. Effectiveness increased by finding the thermometer and the hydrometer.

On the territory of the Balkans, although much more wine was produced, there was also the production of beer, of course, at home.

In 1922, two breweries opened in Skopje and Nis, which was smaller and with smaller capacity than that one in Skopje. The same year the industrial company Parna Pivara in Skopje was founded. The founders were two Czechs, engineer Viktor Zeiss and banker Karel Husnik.

Even during the Second World War, the brewery used the maximum capacity for beer production. In 1942, beer production and sales reached a record 33.931 hectoliters.

In various breweries and in different places, recipes for preparing beer are with the same basic groceries, but the difference is in combination. The one that was produced in the Brewery in Skopje was taken by the Czechs who founded it. To this day, Pivara Skopje is served with the same recipe, with a distinctive taste with pronounced bitterness and contamination.

Therefore, when we already have the formula for rapprochement, do not wait for the occasion, or if you need it – make it! Get out with your loved ones, relax, charge the batteries, take a picture! Here’s a tip: How to perfectly brew beer in a glass:

1. Wash out the glass with cool, fresh water. Do not dry it.
2. Insert. Hold the glass at an angle of 45 degrees. Fix the glass slowly while it is full, then fix the bottle.
3. Always remove the excess foam. Start removing the foam as soon as the beer starts leaking.
4. Check that the foam is perfect, there should be two fingers foam.
5. Serve with a smile holding the glass on the base.
6. Raise the glasses and … CHEERS,

For all of us!