Sikaru II

Double Fermented Lager Beer

Anniversary beer launch for Feyrouz (Levantine Street Food) 8th birthday.

Sikaru, the symbol of the very first chemically confirmed barley beer written in cuneiform by Sumerians.

The Hymn to Ninkasi, is a song of praise to Ninkasi —the ancient Sumerian goddess of beer — and probably the earliest surviving recipe for brewing beer (dated around 1800 BCE): One began with flowing water, then made bappir (twice-baked barley bread) and mixed it with honey and dates. Once the bread had cooled on reed mats it was mixed with water and wine before being put into the fermenter. After the brew had finished the fermentation process, it was placed in the filtering vat “which makes a pleasant sound” and then placed “appropriately on a collector vat” from which the filtered beer was then poured into jars. According to the hymn, the pouring of the beer was “like the onrush of the Tigris and Euphrates” which is taken to mean that, like those two rivers, beer brought life to those who drank it.