"Who invented beer?" Topic

"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…"
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Amicalement
Armand

Charlie Mopps.
God bless him!

All wrong ! We, the Germans, invented it… Maybe we did not, but we surely did the first law defining what is Bier/beer and whats not ! link

Hops-a-long Cassidy. So the Irish wouldn't conquer the world.

"In the original text, the only ingredients that could be used in the production of beer were water, barley and hops." First purity law from link provided by WCTFreak.

It was a chance event, or some might see it as divine intervention. Yeast is the key, and volunteered for the job for millenium!

My guess? Adam. Much to Eve's distress.

Well, uh, there's Noah, the first recorded drunk.

Whoever it was should be put up for sainthood.

A long time ago, way back in history,
when all there was to drink was nothin but cups of tea.
Along came a man by the name of Charlie Mops,
and he invented a wonderful drink and he made it out of hops.

YouTube link

I thought that was public knowledge; The British to stop the Irish taking over the world…or was that whiskey? Probably both…couldn't take any chances

I wonder how far they are casting their net for 'hard evidence'? I remember when I studied Middle Egyptian I had to translate innumerable passages by people who wanted to be remembered (among other things) because they gave 'bread and beer' to the poor. I must have translated that a lot, because I can still remember it 30 years later, but I expect there are similar mortuary requests that should be considered as evidence that are probably easier to date than ceramic vessels…

Good show,OFM. Had me smiling.

Proto-Belgae…Just after the wheel and sex.

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy", paraphrasing Ben Franklin, so, yeah, Divine Intervention has my vote! Most likely to help Adam and Eve after the failure of their first attempt at cider.