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- Beer was safer to drink in medieval times than water contaminated by sewage, and therefore was served to visitors. Beer was also helpful to monks in getting through periods of fasting in Lent and Advent. Beer’s nutrients earned it the nickname “liquid bread.”
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Oct 16, 2016 · Beer was crucial to humanity’s survival and flourish very early on, which is why it shouldn’t surprise anyone to learn how many of the greatest Catholics in Church history were huge fans of the stuff.
Feb 1, 2013 · The Catholic Church has a rich and tasty historical relationship with beer. Conversely, this fermented beverage has also influenced the Church's history. This should not come as a surprise to anyone studying history.
Oct 31, 2017 · On this day 500 years ago, an obscure Saxon monk launched a protest movement against the Catholic Church that would transform Europe. Martin Luther's Protestant Reformation changed not just the...
Oct 31, 2017 · Most notably, after taking on the formidable might of the Catholic Church, an unruffled Luther famously declared that God and the Word did everything, "while I drank beer with my [friends] Philipp and Amsdorf."
Oct 30, 2019 · According to Staudt, the book presents three perspectives that place beer squarely in the Catholic worldview: “beer’s relation to Catholic cult or worship, its place in Catholic thought and history, and the way in which it enables us to be in touch with nature and the craft of production.”
Apr 2, 2018 · The earliest pictorial representation of beer, found in ancient Sumeria around 4000 B.C., shows two men at a vat of beer, drinking it through reed straws (early beer had mash and grain that collected at the top, thus requiring a straw to drink the pure brew). Ever since, beer has been closely associated with fellowship and friendship.
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The history of beer in early Christianity was closely tied to the influence of the Church. The Church saw alcoholic beverages as good gifts from God. After the fall of Rome, it was Church monasteries that maintained knowledge of good brewing practices.
