Take 2 beers and call me in the morning.

The Egyptians carried on the beer making traditions started by the Sumerians and Babylonians. Like these cultures it was revered for the calming and invgorating effect it had on people. Nothing changed there. And interestingly it crossed all class boundaries, from lowly peasants to the highest priest.

The preferred brewing method still often used bread as the starchy component. I think this is partly, according to folklore, how beer was "accidently" discovered. That bread got wet somehow and was left in its container and voila! beer, and they just kept making it that way. But some folk think they kept doing it like this because the main ingredients (wheat, barley, sugar amd yeast) were easily transportable in the form of bread. To make beer then you broke the bread into pieces and soaked it in water and then let the chemical reaction take over. Pretty slick actually. Everyone knows how heavy those beer bottles are.

The Egyptians used beer for medicine too. Documents have been found with lists of prescriptions that included among other cures, beer. Why not? They took it seriously enough to bury their dead with it, buy favours and appease pissed off gods. But they took a lot more beer, about 30000 plus gallons. Those gods are thirsty. Isis is the patron "goddess" of beer.