[decimon]

Head up ping.

[Lurker]

Beer is good for you ping.

[Kenny Bunk]

Secrets? Have any of these contentious boffins ever stopped to consider that all of this may have been a happy brewing accident; that our ancestors were smart enough to recognize the results without getting into microbiology?

OTOH, our forebears (five, I raise you one) were subject to a host of mysterious plagues and epidemics on a regular basis. Maybe some of their brewing accidents had less than these happy results.

I'd be more impressed if our ancestors had figured out Malaria, or Typhus on a shorter schedule.