Today, September 28, 2013, is National Drink Beer Day. Beer is an alcoholic beverage produced by the saccharification of starch and fermentation of the resulting sugar. Beer is the most widely consumed alcoholic beverage in the world and is the third-most popular drink overall, after water and tea. It is thought by some to be the oldest fermented beverage. Beer is one of the oldest prepared beverages in the world, possibly dating back to the early Neolithic or 9500 BC, when cereal was first farmed, and is recorded in the written history of ancient Iraq and ancient Egypt. Archaeologists speculate that beer was instrumental in the formation of civilisations
