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!...........................
God. Except Budweiser, which was invented by Satan.
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.
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.
Al Gore?
Joe Biden?
I love a cold Sumerian lager.
Take your pick
Any society and environment that permitted the growing of grains.Beer or alcohol has shown up in multiple areas.
Beer PinGGG!.................
Everybody
some form is present everywhere
Water kills. Beer does not
it has to be someone black, since they created everything, including music....
Whoever it was should be elevated to a Saint.
Hi.
Ping.
Egyptians, Babylonians and Persians.
5.56mm
Beer without hops isn’t beer at all!
That makes all of these dates wrong