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To: nickcarraway

Do they have some kind of citation about women being among the earliest brewers? I don’t know much about that history.


2 posted on 05/17/2023 10:53:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

im just guessing

but i bet many brewed their own

and the brewing then was a domestic chore

rather than like now where the husband is escaping to his garage man cave to work on his hobby

commercial brewing would have been done by men back then


3 posted on 05/17/2023 11:11:02 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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It’s true. EVERY woman I know just can’t stop talking about, or sharing their beer brewing secrets. .....and each time I shop for a gift of ladies clothes....smack dab in the middle of the displays is...the beer making vats, and enzyme packages...

Sarcasm? May it not be.


8 posted on 05/18/2023 1:20:52 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: nickcarraway

It’s in every anthropology textbook ever published!!!
On the less sarcastic side...in an era when being sober was an absolute necessity to survive...do you think a house woman would brew the suds so her husband or support male would be buzzed half the time, after a hard day hunting or working the crops?
But the advertising is remeniscent of the Virginia Slims cigarette campaign, just like the advertising jingle went......

.you’ve come a long way baby to get where you got today..you got the same lung cancer rates as men.,baby... you’ve come long long way


10 posted on 05/18/2023 1:35:17 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: nickcarraway

“Among the earliest” could mean anything. Impossible to refute.

I read a theory that in prehistory people would let grain sit in bowls of water to soften it and make it easier to eat. Supposedly, that led to porridge, and, accidentally, bread and beer. Who made that accidental discovery first? Who knows?


16 posted on 05/18/2023 3:40:59 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: nickcarraway

That part is BS. Women often were brewers in the middle ages. It was a home industry and was one of the ways in which women could make money.

However, they are trying to take that historical fact and then amplify it to claim women were the earliest brewers. There is no evidence for that. Beer has been around since a LOT earlier than the middle ages.


17 posted on 05/18/2023 3:50:20 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: nickcarraway

Yup, the wimen brewed and poured beer, to wash down the sandwiches they made

Actually, we should commend Miller Lite for reminding us of this fact


18 posted on 05/18/2023 4:39:07 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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