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Beer Domesticated Man
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| December 19, 2013
| Gloria Dawson
Posted on 12/19/2013 5:54:42 AM PST by Second Amendment First
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If you had to choose today, which would it be: bread or beer? Beer! Then BBQ.
To: Second Amendment First
Beer. Is there anything it can't do?
/johnny
To: Second Amendment First
I guess the corollary to this is the saying about giving a man a fish and he will eat for one day, teach a man to fish and he’ll sit in the boat on the lake all day drinking beer.
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posted on
12/19/2013 6:07:26 AM PST
by
T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
To: Second Amendment First
Beer. It’s not just for breakfast anymore.
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posted on
12/19/2013 6:20:50 AM PST
by
newheart
(The worst thing the Left ever did was to convince the world it was not a religion.)
To: Second Amendment First
It was even used as currencyin Egypt, the pyramid workers were paid in beer. It would be interesting to see the documentation behind that factoid.
It IS my perfect recovery drink after a basketball session with those 40-50-60 year old kids; a few pints and a couple of aspirin...I can actually walk he next day!
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posted on
12/19/2013 6:23:57 AM PST
by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
To: Second Amendment First
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12/19/2013 6:24:45 AM PST
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: Red_Devil 232
I was just thinking of that documentary. It's great to watch with friends while drinking quality beer.
I particularly like the duck pond water beer scene.
/johnny
To: Second Amendment First
OLD Theory.
I came up with this idea independently in college when I was taking an anthropology course, but it was already out there then - in the late ‘80s.
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12/19/2013 6:31:44 AM PST
by
Little Ray
(How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
To: Second Amendment First
BEER.. because BEER has food value.
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posted on
12/19/2013 6:32:47 AM PST
by
maddog55
(Alpha Male)
To: Second Amendment First
How did man originally discover beer?
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posted on
12/19/2013 6:42:55 AM PST
by
Night Hides Not
(For every Ted Cruz we send to DC, I can endure 2-3 "unviable" candidates that beat incumbents.)
To: Second Amendment First
That motivated our ancestors to build permanent structures to store their grains and homes close to their fieldswhich in turn led to the creation of villages.Followed shortly by fortifications to prevent others from taking your grain by force.
To: Second Amendment First
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posted on
12/19/2013 7:11:37 AM PST
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: Second Amendment First
What I want to know is how they figured out how to make beer?
Which came first, beer or the fermentation vat?
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12/19/2013 7:14:23 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
To: Red_Devil 232
Didn’t they claim in that documentary that they’ve found beerstone (calcium oxalate), a substance associated with brewing containers, on some of the earliest ceramic vessels discovered?
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12/19/2013 7:17:38 AM PST
by
Flag_This
(Liberalism: Kills countries dead.)
To: Sherman Logan
And cats were domesticated to keep vermin from eating the grain.
Some have become a little too domesticated.
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posted on
12/19/2013 7:17:59 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Everyone get online for Obamacare on 10/1. Overload the system and crash it hard!)
To: KarlInOhio
That's not beer, it's Bud Light. Poor kitty.
/johnny
To: Second Amendment First
I know I will be in the minority here but IMNSHO, beer tastes absolutely nasty to me. I have tried so many different kinds with the same results. I guess it takes all kinds of people to make the world go round...lol.
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12/19/2013 7:51:32 AM PST
by
copaliscrossing
(Comparison is the beginning of discontent.)
To: Second Amendment First
To: copaliscrossing
To: Second Amendment First
There’s some interesting twists and turns to this.
People have three latitude zones on Earth: equatorial, temperate and polar.
In the equatorial regions, vegetable food grows year around, but also spoils quickly and is plagued by insects. Starchy foods like bananas may have been used to make the first beers, and are still used as such in those regions.
In the temperate regions, there are typically two growing seasons during the year, and insects and spoilage are less of a problem. Because much grain is grown here, along with other crops, like grapes, they are the big source for beers and wines, which work well as a way to store calories for the winter months.
In the polar regions, with only one short growing season a year, beer and mead from honey, also wine, are essential for their long winters.
Importantly, there is a major exception, that really matters to beer. Egypt. Though in an equatorial desert region, Egypt had only one crop a year, after the annual flooding of the Nile river. So like temperate regions, grew a lot of grain, and spent a lot of time and effort, some 3000 years worth, figuring out how to store it, and convert it to beer. Wine as well.
By the time of the Roman Empire, knowledge from all three regions could be consolidated to produce food and drink.
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posted on
12/19/2013 10:41:55 AM PST
by
yefragetuwrabrumuy
(Last Obamacare Promise: "If You Like Your Eternal Soul, You Can Keep It.")
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