And you can all thank Martin Luther for today's beer recipe. He was a true rebel back in his day, basically telling the Pope and Catholicism to 'take your religion and ....'.Well we all know the story of Reformation, but I digress. He rebelled in the Pope's beer recipe too. It used to only be made of certain costly grains, stuff you would not recognize beer to be made with today, more like barley wines and meed. He told his wife (!) to make it out of lower field grains such as malt, hops and wheat just to stick it to the Catholic Man. So began the modern Beer recipe.