Ninkasi

Ninkasi is the goddess of the Bière in mythology sumérienne. It is the girl of Enki and Ninhursag.

Anthem with Ninkasi

made up of two songs engraved on clay shelves dated from the XVIIIe front century J is an anthem. - C. These shelves are known since first half of the 20th century but the first two attempts at translation were not satisfactory. The professor proposed a news of it, in English, 1991. The first song describes stage by stage the process of mixing of the beer sumérienne. The second describes the containers in which the beer is brewed then been useful.

In 1988, the brewers of the Anchor Brewing Company, a Microbrasserie California, did not come into contact with professor Solomon Katz whose publication had intrigued them. The theory of the professor is that the nomads sédentarisés themselves to cultivate Orge so not cooking Pain but brewing beer. Together, they tried to brew beer as it owed the being at the time. After a first test in August 1989, they decided to be based primarily on the Hymne in Ninkasi , helped of professor Miguel Civil for his translation. In interpretation that they made some, they brew starting from bread “to bappir”, bread cooks twice, so that it is quite dry and preserves well, and made up of barley, barley roasted, barley Malt E and Miel. They add a syrup of Datte S at the end of the infusion then a Levure of high Fermentation. On the other hand they do not use a Houblon, still unknown at the time.

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