The only women involved in MY beer are the ones on my labels !
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knewshound
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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 ...
Just remember, it’s still _not_ okay to ask your date, “what do you have on tap?”
Oh c’mon, I’m sure we’d Renew.
Well, I feel like that age-appropriate stuff is more of a guideline than a rule.
The cave was the perfect place to brew German-style beer. In fact, we owe beer consumption for modern refrigeration — the Germans’ caves used to brew beer were of limited size, and a rising population drank up everything brewed during the winter before summer got underway. What a breakthrough that was. Of course, they still wound up starting two world wars...
WE HAVE A WINNER!!!
[virtual tickertape parade down the Canyon of Heroes for JCB]
You must be one of those beer deniers... ;’)
I didn’t suds-spect otherwise. ;’)
Thanks!
You can make some darn tasty aged cheeses in a cave, too! I like beer. I like cheese. So...I’ll be in my cave-like bunker if anyone needs me. ;)
Ale doesn’t need caves. As long as it stays under 80 degrees, ale ferments just fine. Actually, I’ve fermented ale at just a hair over 80 degrees and it came out just fine. It just ferments faster...and you run the risk of some bad flavor, but that doesn’t mean you are sure to get them.
Steam beer is beer that is fermented very quickly.
Wonder if women claim to have invented polka?
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