B Is for Beer by Tom Robbins

Author:Tom Robbins
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2009-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

“Barley grains found near Al Fayyūm, Egypt, have been shown in laboratory tests to be 5,000 years old. That’s 4,994 years older than you, little miss. Whether barley—originally just another species of wild grass—was actually domesticated in Egypt way back then, or was imported as livestock feed from more agriculturally advanced northern cultures, is a subject scholars can debate until their glasses fog over. A more interesting subject is how the Egyptians figured out a way to convert that donkey chow, that camel fodder, into an intoxicating beverage in the first place, an inebriating liquid refreshment so wholly perfect that it’s endured and spread and has grown ever more popular through the ages.

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