If you’re like most communications/marketing people I know, you probably like to unwind with a tasty beverage. It’s very likely that the tasty beverage of choice for unwinding is beer.

With microbreweries and brewpubs popping up seemingly everywhere you look, one can argue that beer is experiencing a sort of Golden Age.

It’s a wonder that something so simple—a combination of water, yeast, barley and hops—could elicit such emotion. But as this infographic from Fast Co. Design points out, beer has a most storied history from the pyramids in Egypt to the Middle Ages in Europe to our founding fathers and today’s triple-hop unfiltered wheat concoctions: