[SunkenCiv]

This is an archaic writing tablet from Mesopotamia (approx. 3000 B.C.): The tablet which contains proto-cuneiform writing, belongs to the most ancient group of written records on earth. It contains calculations of basic ingredients required for the production of cereal products, for example, different types of beer. Credit: M. Nissen, 1990

[Doctor 2Brains]

Bummer for them.

[JRandomFreeper]

If there were men there, there was beer there. Count on it. ;)

/johnny

[momtothree]

No beer?! Reason 5,498 for being thankful that I wasn’t born during ancient times.

[mamelukesabre]

Does the grain really need to be malted for the drink to be called “beer”?

[count-your-change]

A similar tablet was found that explains how two Sumerians tricked the Egyptian guy into paying their bar tab.

[LadyDoc]

the whole point of the alcohol wasn't that it made you drunk, but that the alcohol produced during the process killed the germs present in water.

People weren't stupid: They know drinking water made them sick with diarrhea, but if they drank beer or wine they didn't.

And I had always understood that the "beer"of Egypt and Mesopotamia was low alcohol, but full of protein from the yeast so had nutritional value: More like thick grey home brewed African beer than clear lager.LINK

[colorado tanker]

may not have been beer

No way, baby. It's way better than beer . . .