[Renfield]

Gobleki Tepe is dated to about 11,500 years ago.

[Renfield]

Ping.

And oops, sorry, that age figure should have been 11,000 years, not 11,500 years.

[Hieronymus]

Time for Toby Keith to come up with more verses.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6pMX719cgE

[Lockbar]

Here is the proof:

[central_va]

So cave men had beer guts, who'd figure that?

"hold muh beer..."

[Red_Devil 232]

Gotta ping the homebrewers list to the article.

And a little YouTube video for those who who might be interested. How Beer Saved The World!

[Lazamataz]

Humans have been drinking beer for 11,500 years

Sounds like an alcoholic to me.

[Billthedrill]

A 400-gallon beer trough. Man, I gotta get one of those for the rumpus room. BTT.

[Rock Hardplace]

Looks like I’ve got a lot of catching up to do :)

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

Which means guys have been doing stupid and dangerous stunts for 11,499 years. :)

[reagan_fanatic]

I Like Beer

[mikrofon]

Ich bin ein Biertrinker

[Le Chien Rouge]

...and women have been complaining about men drinking beer for just as long....

[FreedomPoster]

Ping

[Lizavetta]

Some of them start fairly young too.

[ClearCase_guy]

We have been renting beer for 11,500 years.

Had we chosen the "rent to own" option, we'd really be in great shape at this point.

[mc5cents]

11,000 years and still going strong!

[43north]

My favorite song lyrics:

In heaven there is no beer
That’s why we drink it here
And when we are gone from here
Our friends will be drinking all the beer.

Want me to start on “100 bottles of beer on the wall...”?

I didn’t think so.

[Blackirish]

What about the “young earthers”?

I guess they weren’t old enough to drink.

[sima_yi]

Many, many years ago, in Organic Chemistry, the text was Morrison and Boyd. The one quote I remember to this day is as follows:

"The manufacture of soap is one of the oldest of chemical syntheses. (It is not nearly so old as the manufacture of alcohol; apparently, man's desire for cleanliness is much newer than his desire for drunkenness.)"

[jaz.357]

America!