[Libloather]

Yesterday, scientists in the USA revealed that beer contains small traces of female hormones. To prove their theory, they fed 100 men 12 pints of beer and observed that 100% of them started to talk nonsense and couldn't drive.

[RightOnline]

Did the tablets have pictures of Clydesdales? Just wondering (and hoping it wasn't a depiction of sorts of one of the ingredients..........).

[jerod]

Mmmmmmm BEER!

[keithtoo]

Look around wherever they found this and you'll also find a set-top cable transmitter dialed to BC-ESPN!

Maybe some car magazines also

And receipts from Hooters - Ur of the Chaldeas location

And an Hezzekiah-Do list

[testforecho]

Ancient beer bump!

[Gadsden1st]

Were there any recomendations on cheese snacks??

[Temple Drake]

now, why don't we airdrop pamphlets containing a really good beer recipe throughout the Middle East? It would give people something to look forward to!

[testforecho]

Researchers duplicate Midas’ Golden Grog

http://www.coopsmaps.com/beer/ninkasa.html

The Hymn to Ninkasi, Goddess of Beer, inscribed on a nineteenth-century B.C. tablet, contains a recipe for Sumerian beer.)

Translation by Miguel Civil

Borne of the flowing water (...)
Tenderly cared for by the Ninhursag,
Borne of the flowing water (...)
Tenderly cared for by the Ninhursag,

Having founded your town by the sacred lake,
She finished its great walls for you,
Ninkasi, having founded your town by the sacred lake,
She finished its great walls for you

Your father is Enki, Lord Nidimmud,
Your mother is Ninti, the queen of the sacred lake,
Ninkasi, Your father is Enki, Lord Nidimmud,
Your mother is Ninti, the queen of the sacred lake.

You are the one who handles the dough,
[and] with a big shovel,
Mixing in a pit, the bappir with sweet aromatics,
Ninkasi, You are the one who handles
the dough, [and] with a big shovel,
Mixing in a pit, the bappir with [date]-honey.

You are the one who bakes the bappir
in the big oven,
Puts in order the piles of hulled grains,
Ninkasi, you are the one who bakes
the bappir in the big oven,
Puts in order the piles of hulled grains,

You are the one who waters the malt
set on the ground,
The noble dogs keep away even the potentates,
Ninkasi, you are the one who waters the malt
set on the ground,
The noble dogs keep away even the potentates.

You are the one who soaks the malt in a jar
The waves rise, the waves fall.
Ninkasi, you are the one who soaks
the malt in a jar
The waves rise, the waves fall.

You are the one who spreads the cooked
mash on large reed mats,
Coolness overcomes.
Ninkasi, you are the one who spreads
the cooked mash on large reed mats,
Coolness overcomes.

You are the one who holds with both hands
the great sweet wort,
Brewing [it] with honey and wine
(You the sweet wort to the vessel)
Ninkasi, (...)
(You the sweet wort to the vessel)

The filtering vat, which makes
a pleasant sound,
You place appropriately on [top of]
a large collector vat.
Ninkasi, the filtering vat,
which makes a pleasant sound,
You place appropriately on [top of]
a large collector vat.

When you pour out the filtered beer
of the collector vat,
It is [like] the onrush of
Tigris and Euphrates.
Ninkasi, you are the one who pours out the
filtered beer of the collector vat,
It is [like] the onrush of
Tigris and Euphrates.

[billybudd]

Is there any indication as to when the beer companies will start producing Babylon Beer? Mmmmm...ancient beer...brewed for 3800 years.

[Cicero]

I like beer. Where's the recipe?

[PJ-Comix]

Beer...Bier...Cerveza...Piva. But what did the Babylonians call it?