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Originally Posted by Pleasurepays
yeah right Einstein... "man started farming because of beer" - because they wanted grain to ferment and had no interested in food, growing food and sustaining themselves through the winter/year - and how do you know that? because a site like "the beer institute" or "beer advocate" told you so.
seriously, how stupid can you be?
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I think it was Euripides that said "Talk sense to a fool, and he calls you foolish." I guess the same can be said for stupidity.
Who said they had no interest in a stable source of food?
It was a perk.
What we _know_ regarding the dawn of civilization is very little, as recorded history didn't come along until much later. Nearly all of it is inference and theory... including what your fourth grade teacher taught you.
And even before recorded history came along, some of the first recorded elements of society (such as Sumerian prayer chants) regard the making of beer and beer recipes... and we know that people were making fermented beverages long before that. Beer's had a large impact on the development of our society... hell, the whole reason the Mayflower touched down at Plymouth Rock, instead of moving on, as stated in the ship logs - was to begin to replenish its beer supplies.
Is it unbelievable that an interest in exploiting a new technology might have predated the need to solve for starvation in our history?
Is this all really that hard for you to conceptualize?
The idea that civilization started because of the desire to ferment is a widely accepted theory... I've heard it said in lectures regarding subjects that have had nothing to do with zymurgy, and not all of my sources up there (nor those from google) were from beer advocates. Like I suggested, do your own research.
Or don't... I mean, you always have that fourth grade education to fall back on.