KRONENBOURG 1664
Provincial pleasures ping.
They found kegs marked Joe Kennedy. I kid you not!!
/johnny
Just don’t tell me that the French invented beer. I’d be heartbroke..
Of course they had beer, beer was invented way before wine, besides you can grow grain almost every where and harvest it each and every year, whereas grapes take 5 years or so to start producing fruit.
And why shouldn’t they ? Beer was, (and remains), a diet staple rendering the sugars and nutrients of grains to be digested. Brewing is also a faster process than vinting while offering its dross as livestock feed.
Brewing is among the first of man’s “civilized” activities. As archelogy discovers them ancient recipes are being reproduced. Today one can sip upon the same quaffs Assyrians, Cretans, Egyptians and many other cultures enjoyed thanks to craft and cache breweries and hobbiests. >PS
Chapeau! to Decimon and Sunken Civ for the Ping.
French beer is excellent. Wish I were sitting at a cafe terrace with a glass right now.
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The people living in modern day France in the 5th century BC were not French. They were the ancestors of the Irish, Scots, and Welsh combined with the ancestors of what would become victims of Julius Ceasar’s wrath.