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frenchn00b
November 30th, 2009, 07:33 PM
:KS
Luckily it has been invented by someone. But who ?


- Egyptians, Dynasty zero?

Regenweald
November 30th, 2009, 07:36 PM
Charlie Mops :)

wilee-nilee
November 30th, 2009, 07:40 PM
Whoever left the grains in water long enough to ferment and decided to drink it.

chucky chuckaluck
November 30th, 2009, 07:44 PM
i want to vigorously kiss him/her/it.

lisati
November 30th, 2009, 07:45 PM
Do I detect a European influence in the thread title?

Islington
November 30th, 2009, 07:47 PM
probably one of the oldest cases of biotechnology.

Useful for storing grain.

kellemes
November 30th, 2009, 07:55 PM
Must have been some crazy Dutchman.

KiwiNZ
November 30th, 2009, 08:00 PM
Around 9000BC Egypt region. Or was it Tui at Mangatainoka

Chargaff
November 30th, 2009, 08:01 PM
There's a bar here in Québec named after the Egyptian goddess of Beer : "Ninkasi". So maybe she invented it, something like 10 000 years ago :D

Seriously, I think the Mesopotamian or the Egyptian did invent it.

RiceMonster
November 30th, 2009, 08:05 PM
There's a bar here in Québec named after the Egyptian goddess of Beer : "Ninkasi". So maybe she invented it, something like 10 000 years ago :D

I assume you're right, as only a God could create something so awesome.

Excedio
November 30th, 2009, 08:09 PM
It seems that everyone in this thread is talking about Beer. However.... shouldn't we be discussing this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bier

On second thought....i prefer Beer. :-D

alphaniner
November 30th, 2009, 08:17 PM
As far as I'm concerned, Arthur Guinness invented beer in the 1840s.

marco123
November 30th, 2009, 08:20 PM
1759

alphaniner
November 30th, 2009, 08:22 PM
That's when he started brewing period. I'm referring to



The first Guinness beers to use the term [stout] were Single Stout and Double Stout in the 1840s.

OrangeCrate
November 30th, 2009, 08:23 PM
It seems that everyone in this thread is talking about Beer. However.... shouldn't we be discussing this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bier

On second thought....i prefer Beer. :-D

Knowing what a bier was/is, I was a little confused at first too, but, Wikipedia comes through again...


A bier is a stand on which a corpse, or coffin or casket containing a corpse, is placed to lie in state or to be carried to the grave...

Obviously invented by the people too drunk on beer, to carry the casket to the grave site, without a little help.

And that's that.

:)

Tibuda
November 30th, 2009, 08:23 PM
It seems that everyone in this thread is talking about Beer. However.... shouldn't we be discussing this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bier

On second thought....i prefer Beer. :-D

See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bier_%28disambiguation%29#Other_uses
and
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bier

wilee-nilee
November 30th, 2009, 08:24 PM
It seems that everyone in this thread is talking about Beer. However.... shouldn't we be discussing this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bier

On second thought....i prefer Beer. :-D

It's all bacterial based. ;)

marco123
November 30th, 2009, 08:34 PM
That's when he started brewing period. I'm referring to

That date popped into my head because it's on all the Guiness bottles and cans that's all.:) No disrespect meant.

Marco.

doas777
November 30th, 2009, 08:41 PM
ok, you caught me. I dun it.
sorry bout that.

frenchn00b
November 30th, 2009, 08:54 PM
i want to vigorously kiss him/her/it.

- I too ;)

HappinessNow
December 1st, 2009, 03:56 AM
There is unverifiable thoughts on the subject that beer actually was invented 263, 487, 987 earth years ago in a galaxy far, far away. Speculation is a wayward band of space hooligans accidentally happened upon Earth after consuming too much beer for intergalactic travel, once here they went road tripping all over the globe where they were thought to be Gods, angels even extraterrestrials by local inhabitants. Fortunately, they trained the simple humanoids how to brew beer and the rest is left to historical speculation.

the yawner
December 1st, 2009, 04:34 AM
Someone left it on the fridge and forgot all about it. A few weeks later and some thirsty chap found the new concoction.

toupeiro
December 1st, 2009, 04:56 AM
the recipe for Fraoch Heather Ale originated in 2000 BC, so I would say it was the Celts, in Scotland! I have a nice, frosty one in my fridge. Yum! I'll think I'll have it now.

http://www.fraoch.com/historicales.htm

Tipped OuT
December 1st, 2009, 05:02 AM
I assume you're right, as only a God could create something so awesome.

Beer tastes nasty. Had a sip of it, and BAGH! :p

amazingtaters
December 1st, 2009, 05:34 AM
Beer tastes nasty. Had a sip of it, and BAGH! :p

I'd watch what you say around these parts. Someone who's had one too many beers might throw a bottle,:twisted:

steveneddy
December 1st, 2009, 05:55 AM
i want to vigorously kiss him/her/it.

;)

doas777
December 1st, 2009, 02:07 PM
Beer tastes nasty. Had a sip of it, and BAGH! :p

it's an aquired taste. are you sure you have the right codec installed?

RiceMonster
December 1st, 2009, 02:09 PM
Beer tastes nasty. Had a sip of it, and BAGH! :p

Everyone thinks that the first time :p.

kellemes
December 1st, 2009, 02:11 PM
Everyone thinks that the first time :p.

And the second time it will be the best taste you've ever had.

Edit: getting thirsty here..

doas777
December 1st, 2009, 02:21 PM
I vividly remember the first time that german beer tasted good to me. two weeks previous it had tasted like bitter flower petals.

but then one day, it was like unto mana from heaven...

cascade9
December 1st, 2009, 03:09 PM
There's a bar here in Québec named after the Egyptian goddess of Beer : "Ninkasi". So maybe she invented it, something like 10 000 years ago :D

Seriously, I think the Mesopotamian or the Egyptian did invent it.

Ninkasi is Sumerian.

http://www.matrifocus.com/SAM06/spotlight.htm

I dont think anyone has an hard evidence about how, where or how beer was 1st brewed, but IMO the Sumerians were probably the biggest beer fans in the pre-historic and early historical world. Barley which is almost the defining ingredient in beer, was really big in Sumeria- measurements were by 'barley seed'. 6 'fingers' (single grain) to the 'hand', 30 hands/180 fingers to the 'barley cubit', 360 for the double cubit.

Theres also connections between the barley lengths and other measurements (area, mass, volume) but thats not worth going into here. LOL

BTW, Sumerian (and Egyptian for that matter) beer was not like what we get now. If you check the link to page on Ninkasi above, you'll see that the people are drinking beer by straw. Why you might ask? Not to get more drunk (though that does work). Its because beer than was more like a really strange, very liquid bread dough than anything else....the straws are to stop you from swallowing all the bits of dough.

doas777
December 1st, 2009, 03:18 PM
I'm reminded of a quote, from the source of all wisdom: StarTrek...



"It makes me homesick. Just like Russia."
"More like the Garden of Eden, Ensign."
"Of course, Doctor. The Garden of Eden was just outside Moscow. A very nice place. It must have made Adam and Eve very sad to leave."

- The Apple: Chekov and McCoy, upon arriving on the planet