beer drinking goes waaaay back

behringer 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

There are many who think society itself was formed in order to make alcohol. Without alcohol there would be little reason to grow so much grain and thus little reason to have so many people in one place.

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ceejayoz 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Even kids drank (weak) beer, in part because the alcohol content kills pathogens. Even today clean water can be tough to find for some folks.

	▲	IAmBroom 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		That's an old theory, but the whole "water was unsafe to drink" thing has been debunked pretty well. The bigger reason is that beer provided an excellent way to consume a lot of calories fast, in a moderately shelf-stable (~3 days) format. You could carry your meal in a water container, which you needed to take anyway.

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metalman 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

way before when the tablet was made, as residues on pottery 5 thousand years older, 8-9-10 k yrs bp show that grains were soaked and lightly fermented, to increase nutritional content, palatability/texture, with this practice bieng practiced all the way through the stone ages. some have suggested that fermentation was the primary impetus for building the first semi permanent dwellings....beer first, somewhere to hang out was a bonus

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NL807 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

malt is used in baking as well

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DaveZale 3 days ago | parent [-]

they evolved in tandem. Back in the day, old bread would be used as a starter culture for beer.

https://www.getty.edu/360/event_images/mesobeer.pdf

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edoceo 3 days ago | parent [-]

One can also use live-beer when making a starter dough. Neat flavours.

	▲	DaveZale 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		cool, I'll try that, muchos gracias