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 ...
Beer required Hops from foriegn parts, that mostly spoke French. No true Englishman would drink an imitation Ale spawned by the frogs, their social and sexual habits are the subject of a separate discussion.
The introduction of Hops was the start of the descent to Gordon Brown and the death of Old England.
Ugly women created beer. It gives them a chance at reproduction.
Kent (which produces Kent Goldings hops) and Worcestershire have long produced hops.
http://www.timetravel-britain.com/articles/country/oasts.shtml
There are very few English occupational surnames that have a feminine ending: Brewster, Webster and Baxter. (Spinsters weren’t supposed to have children.) But since there are Brewers, Weavers and Bakers, men must have been allowed into the trade at some point.
You might have noticed that Hops were introduced when the Dutch King Willy was imposed upon England. A foul, foul time, thank God my family had departed Gloustershire for the New World years earlier, we did have a problem brewing with corn, the Scots solved that, though it took a few years.
The inventor of beer.
For obvious reasons.
I was cultivating a strain in my Petri dish, but unfortunately it became inbread.
Bad news: She’s putting on weight with all that brewski trinken.
Good news: Look where it’s going.
You mean, it ended up in bread!
LOL!
Sad.
Really, I am sad she and I ain’t sharing a beer and some laughs.
*groan*
...and they invented beer as an anesthetic against their main delusional system: wives.
In the process, they also discovered that the beer overloaded their own deluginal system.
That eventually led to the necessary invention of indoor plumbing, and then came the endless delusional fights about the proper toilet seat position. *<];-')
And just pye-eyed enough to say, "YES, let's do!"
Just beer, or beer goggles?
Bring me the blonde. WoW.
As that old saying goes..
Behind every successful Man.......And...
there's a woman spending his money.
I was in love with a Beautiful Blond once, she drove me to drink.Take my wife...... Please.
That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.
LOL! :)
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