**1. Introduction**

Beer brewing is an established ancient art in different civilization and cultures, but there is no a precise and unanimous agreement on the origin of beer. Recent evidences predominantly based on the archeological and historical evidences explain the origin of brewing across time and space [1]. The timespan for its existence differs over a wide range of geography, from as far back as "The Neolithic Revolution" to the early horizon in South America. It commenced in the agricultural or "Neolithic" revolution period as early as 9000 BC with the advent of the Sumerians in the lowlands of the Mesopotamian alluvial plane [2, 3]. Evidence of rice-based fermented beverage has been found in between 7000 and 5000 BC in China [4–7] and ancient Mesopotamia back to about 6000 BC [8–10]. Similarly, in Northern Africa highlighting Egypt at about 3500 BC [11], in Europe around 3000 BC [12, 13] and in South America 900-200 BC [14–16], locally fermented alcoholic beverages have been produced. Recent starch [17] and chemical residue studies [18] extend this period as far as 11,000 BC. In broader terms, all these fermented beverages may be considered as a craft beer based on the production scale.
