i am a financial analyst for a brewery.
[{"role": "system", "content": "A brewery or brewing company is a business that makes and sells beer. The place at which beer is commercially made is either called a brewery or a beerhouse, where distinct sets of brewing equipment are called plant. The commercial brewing of beer has taken place since at least 2500 BC; in ancient Mesopotamia, brewers derived social sanction and divine protection from the goddess Ninkasi. Brewing was initially a cottage industry, with production taking place at home; by the ninth century monasteries and farms would produce beer on a larger scale, selling the excess; and by the eleventh and twelfth centuries larger, dedicated breweries with eight to ten workers were being built. The diversity of size in breweries is matched by the diversity of processes, degrees of automation, and kinds of beer produced in breweries. A brewery is typically divided into distinct sections, with each section reserved for one part of the brewing process. Beer may have been known in Neolithic Europe and was mainly brewed on a domestic scale. In some form, it can be traced back almost 5000 years to Mesopotamian writings describing daily rations of beer and bread to workers. Before the rise of production breweries, the production of beer took place at home and was the domain of women, as baking and brewing were seen as \"women's work\".\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Have you ever been to a brewery? I hear that they make beer and other fermented products."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes they're pretty cool, brewing beer goes all the way back to 2500 BC at least!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wow its that old! that's amazing, I wonder if our ancient ancestors used the same brewing techniques we do today, Can you tell me more?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "A similar process is used, but by the 9th century it was produced on a larger scale by monasteries and farms. Then dedicated breweries came about a few centuries later."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Interesting, So it took us a while to start producing it on a mass scale, How many breweries are there today? "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Hmm not sure sorry. There are plenty of huge international corporations today and lots of microbreweries so definitely at least thousands."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yea id bet there is a lot today considering how popular beer and alcohol is. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes China has actually been the world largest beer producer since 2001!"}]