beer in history

June 9, 2006 2:25 PM

The always interesting sidenote of beer in ancient history
posted by cdcello (6 comments total)

That was then . . . this is now. Really cruel of you to post about beer on a Friday, when I still have 23 minutes of work left.

Countdown: 17 days until my bottle-conditioned Porter will be ready to sample.
posted by spock at 2:36 PM on June 9, 2006

nice!! you a fellow homebrewer!! RDWHAHB. I am setting up a keggorator to run three cornies but I have a nut brown/SB on tap right now. I get off in 71 minutes :-)
posted by cdcello at 2:44 PM on June 9, 2006

Relax, have a homebrew.
posted by caddis at 2:57 PM on June 9, 2006

I love reading about stuff like that...
I have a theory that early ship exploration was limited only by the amount of alcohol they could carry for the crew.

1st Mate: "Wer' out of Grog captain!"
Captain: "Argg, $%&@ the new world. Set sail for home!"
posted by indifferent at 3:46 PM on June 9, 2006

There the Romans found a separate—and to them, barbaric—culture of people, whose social life seemed to be centered on beer.
posted by exogenous at 10:26 PM on June 9, 2006

I've been studying that period of history lately, just for the fuck of it, and this is the first I've heard about beer then. Beer is good.

My name is stavros, and I approve of this post.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 6:21 AM on June 10, 2006