[himno hero]

Given that, I would think beer would have been about the same time.

[muawiyah]

Before beer there was HONEY and GRAPES and OTHER WILD FRUIT. And you didn't have to even have ceramic pots to work that stuff down to a potable inebriating libation (for birthday parties and stuff like that, right).

These guys had been making cheese for at least 50,000 to 75,000 years ~ since their arrival in Central Asian ~ takes a slower sort of fermintation which requires cool weather typical of the Ice Age.

[JRandomFreeper]

Typically, beer making is thought to preceed bread, and may have been why people settled to grow grains. (would have been enough reason for me to invent agriculture)

Expect to catch a lot of good-natured flack for your comment. ;)

Signed, Beer Lovers on FR. (not that we've studied it to the extent we've made beer from the recipe found in the pyramid, not all of us, anyway)

/johnny

[Renfield]

Last Friday afternoon, I drank a bunch of beer (and cider) with some marine biologists, anthropologists, and student interns in a room deep in the bowels of the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian. Very pleasant afternoon!