midlifebear
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Beer was invented out of necessity. Water was previously diseased with everything. The boiling process the water goes through filters the liquid of disease and impurities, thus sustaining populations and helping build civilisations. Plato said "He was a wise man who invented beer." However, I have often wondered why ancient man could not simply boil water from streams and rivers in the same way and drink the filtered, non-alcoholic pure liquid. It seems like an excuse to get drunk to me.
Read up on how difficult it is to boil water in fired clay containers. And no one has discovered giant copper or iron kettles from the bronze age, although they appear in cartoons and movies about cannibals. However, several millennia before the bonze age when beer was created -- either by luck or design -- there's is quite a bit of mounting evidence that meeting up to get a buzz on is one of the changes in the ways humans lived as we converted from hunter/gatherer tribes to irrigation and agriculture civilizations. However, all pre pottery and pre bronze cultures (yes, a few still exist) have something in common: 1. a way to invoke hallucinations via the use of one or a combination of plants that are hallucinogens and 2. a means to make a mild alcoholic beverage enjoyed by all.