Beer

Some of the products made by the Maltese brewery Farsons.

There are more than 20,000 beer labels around the world. People drank beer 4,300 years before Christ, in Babylon, Assyria and even in China and among the Incas.  Commercial beer started in Germany around 1200, but the first Oktoberfest was held in 1810 in Munich. The oldest brewery in Munich, Lowenbrau was founded in 1373. The nation that drinks more beer (of course other than the people in Bend, Oregon, where there are close to 30 Breweries,) is the Czech Republic. 

Many monasteries used to, and still manufacture beer, because they found out it was healthy, and the cheapest way to drink. Malta has a well-known Brewery called Farsons, which also makes my favorite drink, Kinnie, made from oranges and aromatic herbs.