Posted on 08/27/2020 10:27:38 AM PDT by Red Badger
Benjamin Franklin
Mead, malts, and even wines used to be quite nutritious and the recipes often involved a good number of ingredients, not just for flavor, but for preservation. Low levels of alcohol are anti-microbial, but by itself will not prevent spoilage.
Imagine living in a place where grabbing a brew was not just a refreshing rehydration while working in the summer sun, but also packed with vitamins and phyto-nutrients. What a sad way we have come to the present age of mass-manufactured piss water.
Beer Ping!...........................
There was a time in the US, early to mid 1800’s, when ‘beer’ was the favorite breakfast drink for all Americans...........mainly because the waters would kill you............
God. Except Budweiser, which was invented by Satan.
I thought it was invented by horses...................
I’m sure I had an Egyptian ancestor named Drill-amon who dragged thousand-pound stones into a pile for free beer. I would have.
Yuengling.
This brought back a long-forgotten memory...back when I taught humanities decades ago, I had a “prehistoric” lecture where I described a bunch of “cave men” having a business meeting, where they were looking for solutions for the problem of spending 90% of their time hunting and gathering. One groups decides they could make life easier by domesticating animals, so they wouldn’t have to hunt, and the other group decides they could make life easier by domesticating plants, so they wouldn’t have to gather. So the two groups go their separate ways; one becomes pastoral, and the other becomes agricultural, and the rest is, well, history, because pastoral cultures emphasized portable arts like poetry, and agricultural cultures emphasized immovable arts like architecture—Egyptians built pyramids, Israelites wrote psalms. It’s much more complex than that, of course, but this was for students whose experience with culture began and ended with yogurt, IYKWIM.
Ben just pointed out that God created beer because he wants us to be happy.
I don’t know about beer, but I’ve always said the first person to create an alcoholic drink had to be a parent of toddlers.
That's also why the ancient Greeks had krater, the enormous bowls where water was mixed with wine: the grape juice gave the water some flavor, and the alcohol gave the water some potability.
Al Gore?
Joe Biden?
I love a cold Sumerian lager.
Ancient cave paintings were ‘shopping lists’ made by Mrs. Cavewoman to tell her hubby what to bring home for dinner...............
Old Sumerian Lager will make you Babble On..................
No, it is filtered through the Clydesdales. It part of the manufacturing process.
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