Posted on 03/30/2010 7:17:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
One of man's great pleasures might be a pint of beer at the local -- but an academic has claimed it would never have existed without the entrepreneurial skills of women.
Jane Peyton, 48, and author and historian, said women created beer and for thousands of years it was only they who were allowed to operate breweries and drink beer.
The drink is now almost exclusively marketed to men -- with television characters such as Homer Simpson the epitome of the beer-loving male.
Yet Miss Peyton said that up until 200 years ago, beer was considered a food and fell into the remit of women's work. It was only then that men began drinking it and it became what is considered a very male drink.
Miss Peyton has conducted extensive research into the origins of beer for a new book, and discovered to her surprise that a woman's touch was found on beer throughout the ages.
Nearly 7,000 years ago in Mesopotamia and Sumeria, so important were their skills that they were the only ones allowed to brew the drink or run any taverns.
And in almost all ancient societies beer was also then considered to be a gift from a goddess, never a male God.
Between the eighth and tenth centuries AD the Vikings spread terror by rampaging through Europe, fuelled by women-made ale.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
I wonder that she never heard of any of the monasteries in Europe that have been brewing beer for many centuries, monasteries that were populated by monks instead of convents that were populated by women. The hell of it is, her studies were probably paid for by a government grant, no one would spend their own money on something like this.
Where would we be without all these experts claiming their claims? Why the world would be covered in windmills and we’d all be driving glorified golf carts and living in cities like Logans Run with all the great fixed rail public transportation, and when our alloted time to live ran out Barack would just give us a blue pill and we’d be soylent green burgers for the public schoolchildren at next days’ lunch...
/end liberal fantasy rant
Zicke, zacke, zicke, zacke, hoi, hoi, hoi!
“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy!” - Ben Franklin
There are places where wine is dominant, but places where it wasn’t, it’s almost always beer. Egypt, for example, was beer dominant. Most of northern Europe was, too. And it turns up in Mesopotamia and Phoenicia too....In England for much of her history, beer was the beverage of breakfast, too...and for working people, the beverage of lunch and dinner as well....
We our thanks to the ugly ones for beer.
For the beautiful ones, they owe for driving us crazy.(and that why drink liquor. LOL)
Ale is Gods gift to Man. How could you women expect men to go out and steal, plunder, and hit people in the heads with swords and axes, not to mention bringing home to mama gold and gems, if we stayed home and made Ale?
Lifes tough. But then you know that. /s LOL
I’ll take one of those.
(the one on the right. She is cuuuute!!!)
But but that would go against what we know to be true. Women did everything before men did.
Your tag line is hilarious!
Thanks !!!!!!!
De Nada!
Let's call it even.
Okeee Dokey....
I wouldn’t worry too much about the 200 years thing, because it was modified with a “beer is food” attitude, and that is an important modifier.
Crop storage was always very difficult, and traditionally, the best time to starve was in the spring before the crops were ripe. By that time, most of the remaining old crop of grain had rotted, and was no longer edible. But converting grain to beer meant that it would last through harvest as food.
And this led to the idea of Lenten beer. In southern Europe, they had wine for this purpose, but in central Europe, monks brewed a very high calorie, high alcohol, Lenten beer. Unsure whether it was acceptable during the Lenten fast, they sent cases to the Vatican, where the wine drinkers found it to be loathsome, so approved its use, with special commendation due to its bad taste.
Going back further, I can find it easy to imagine beer making as “woman’s work”, as just another domestic chore, such as churning butter, bread making and cooking.
Pingaling
We all know that the women were the gatherers while men were hunters.
Men couldn’t master a grill cheese sammitch alone /s
I suspect that all of humanity lent a hand before all this sexism BS.
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