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Probably true. Why else would we drink?
Well I wouldn’t be interested in a “kiss of the hops” from a man.
I don’t want to know where the yeast came from.
Whatever. I think the real thanks goes to Medieval German monks for their contributions to the development of real good beer.
“...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.”
Please. We HAD to drink back then to make it through the day...considering the Cavemen we were married to, LOL!
Husband? It’s 2010. Beer Me! :)
Academic has claimed...
OK i do not have to read any further...
Yea, pseudo-scientific revisionist history! Yea!
Further proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Yes, women were frequently the brewers, at least for the stuff drank at home, but to say men didn’t drink beer until 200 years ago is really bad writing...maybe they meant that staring about 200 years ago, beer became seen as a more masculine beverage....There’s huge amounts of history that men drank the stuff all over the beer-drinking parts of the world...(and evidence that at least some of the time, men were professional brewers).
I hate twisted revisionist history...
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
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)
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.