• emolr@lemmy.world
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      I was about to say, beer is as old as civilization itself. I don’t think people can quite determine whether beer or civilization came first

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        We just domesticated beer around then. Before that beer bottles ran around wild and unboxed.

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          What a wild time that must have been. To see the wild herd of Beerffalo run wild must have been a sight like no other.

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          You jest, but this isn’t far from the truth. Mammals used to get drunk by eating rotten fruit that had fallen off trees.

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            And wasps. Which is why they’re more aggressive in the fall.

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        There is evidence that we made beer before bread. That’s the kind of scale we’re talking here.

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          My understanding of the current theory.

          Grains were eaten as a porridge.

          People started to realise if you let some watery porridge sit open for a few days, something good happens.

          People experimented…beer was created.

          People then found adding beer to ground grains to be baked caused it to rise.

          People experimented…bread was created.