History of beer is much more interesting than you think.
“Whether the drink somehow made its way from the Mideast to northern Europe or was independently invented by the Gauls and/or the Germans is unclear. Some see a Babylonian influence in German terms for numbers, so it is not impossible that exchanges occurred between these cultures, despite the distance between them (Menninger). Others have traced it from Egypt via Spain. Eyer writes “Given how popular beer was in Gaul, one can ask if it was introduced or if it is among the inherited knowledge of the Gauls…” “
https://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/04/stumbling-through-history-towards-beer.html