John Barleycorn.
Posted on 08/27/2020 10:27:38 AM PDT by Red Badger
The first fermented beverages most likely emerged alongside the development of cereal agriculture some 12,000 years ago.
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If you’re searching for an original brewmaster to toast the next time you knock back a cold one, you might be out of luck. It’s difficult to attribute the invention of beer to a particular culture or time period, but the world’s first fermented beverages most likely emerged alongside the development of cereal agriculture some 12,000 years ago. As hunter-gatherer tribes settled into agrarian civilizations based around staple crops like wheat, rice, barley and maize, they may have also stumbled upon the fermentation process and started brewing beer. In fact, some anthropologists have argued that these early peoples’ insatiable thirst for hooch may have contributed to the Neolithic Revolution by inspiring new agricultural technologies.
The earliest known alcoholic beverage is a 9,000-year-old Chinese concoction made from rice, honey and fruit, but the first barley beer was most likely born in the Middle East. While people were no doubt imbibing it much earlier, hard evidence of beer production dates back about 5,000 years to the Sumerians of ancient Mesopotamia. Archeologists have unearthed ceramic vessels from 3400 B.C. still sticky with beer residue, and 1800 B.C.’s “Hymn to Ninkasi”—an ode to the Sumerian goddess of beer—describes a recipe for a beloved ancient brew made by female priestesses. These nutrient-rich suds were a cornerstone of the Sumerian diet, and were likely a safer alternative to drinking water from nearby rivers and canals, which were often contaminated by animal waste.
Beer consumption also flourished under the Babylonian Empire, but few ancient cultures loved knocking back a few as much as the Egyptians. Workers along the Nile were often paid with an allotment of a nutritious, sweet brew, and everyone from pharaohs to peasants and even children drank beer as part of their everyday diet. Many of these ancient beers were flavored with unusual additives such as mandrake, dates and olive oil. More modern-tasting libations would not arrive until the Middle Ages, when Christian monks and other artisans began brewing beers seasoned with hops.
I knew they had something to do with it..............
Take your pick
Any society and environment that permitted the growing of grains.Beer or alcohol has shown up in multiple areas.
Beer PinGGG!.................
The real question is “Who invented Beer Pong?”.......................
Everybody
some form is present everywhere
Water kills. Beer does not
Beer is 95% water.
John Barleycorn.
I see what you did there.
Of course it is. That why beer is a good hydrator. Water is toxic when contaminated as most in the wild is. Whereas you don’t get disease from beer. The alcohol kills the germs.
The brits drink a cup or two of tea during the day and then go to the pub for a hydrating pint or two in the evening.
Beer provides the daily need for water without the high probability of an infectious disease or diaharea
it has to be someone black, since they created everything, including music....
No, they invented Malt Liquor.................
Everybody knows that if you drink alcohol, you won’t get worms.... ;o]
‘Face
Whoever it was should be elevated to a Saint.
Finally! A thread I can really drink to!
‘Face
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Hi.
Ping.
Egyptians, Babylonians and Persians.
5.56mm
Beer without hops isn’t beer at all!
That makes all of these dates wrong
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